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Like A Stone · Audioslave

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like A Stone on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-78, snare through bars 79-95, silence through bars 96-102, hi-hat through bars 103-108, toms through bars 109-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-39, and 8 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 110.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 93-111 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Like A Stone?

108 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 Stone hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Like A Stone?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED