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Here Come the Rome Plows · Drive Like Jehu

Here Come the Rome Plows · Drive Like Jehu
EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART M
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART M
BREAK
9 groovesCMDS22Z+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here Come the Rome Plows on drums

226 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 5:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, ride through bars 36-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-41, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 13 and 26, and 14 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-----|
Here Come the Rome Plows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-99 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Here Come the Rome Plows?

180 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Here Come the Rome Plows hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Here Come the Rome Plows?

12 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED