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It Must Have Been The Roses · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Must Have Been The Roses on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 6:15 of playing, on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and ride through bars 2-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 10-24 and 28-33, and 10 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
It Must Have Been The Roses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-75 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 81-106 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It Must Have Been The Roses?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is It Must Have Been The Roses hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED