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KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello · Thomas Raggi

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFS2IM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, toms through bars 28-29 and silence through bars 30-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 34-48 and 62-68, and 6 more places -- 59.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-|----x-x---x-----|
KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 69, 77, 85 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-79 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-94 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in KEEP THE PACK with Tom Morello, Matt Sorum - prod. Tom Morello?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 69, 77, 85 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED