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Kerosene · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 3 OF 28
Groove C -- Part C
61 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesKGCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kerosene on drums

106 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, ride through bars 37-60, snare through bars 61-66 and ride through bars 67-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-23, 26-28 and 38-41, and 7 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Kerosene -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 24, 36, 42, 48 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kerosene?

155 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Kerosene hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kerosene?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 24, 36, 42, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED