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king of the rats · Bodysnatcher

EXERCISE 22 OF 47
Groove J
41 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART S3
PART I
CHORUS
PART W
PART S8
OUTRO
10 groovesLS3S10S8A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play king of the rats on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31 and snare through bars 32-41, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 36, and 5 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-----------------------x-------|
king of the rats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 23, 39, 45 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- L, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-58 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-24 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is king of the rats?

140 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 king of the rats hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 king of the rats?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 23, 39, 45 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED