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Like a Rolling Stone · Bob Dylan

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like a Rolling Stone on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 14-16 and 18-20, and 24 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 73, 93, 108 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-108 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Like a Rolling Stone?

96 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 Like a Rolling Stone hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Like a Rolling Stone?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 73, 93, 108 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED