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Mic Check · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 8 OF 10
Join Part C to Break (bars 50-52)
75 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK
CHORUS
PART C
BREAK
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesACS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mic Check on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-60, silence through bars 61-68 and toms through bars 69-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-44 and 69-84 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |---------x------|----------x-----|
SD |----x----x--xxxx|xx--x--xxxx-xxxx|
T2 |----x-----------|----x-----------|
FT |x---------------|xx-----xxx------|
BD |x--x----x-------|--xx------------|
Mic Check -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-60 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Mic Check?

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 Mic Check hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED