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Mr. Roboto · Styx

EXERCISE 23 OF 49
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 76-78)
115 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART S
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesJGSYT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Roboto on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-87, toms through bars 88-91, snare through bars 92-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-133, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-44 and 46, and 6 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-107 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 120-137 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Roboto?

120 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 Mr. Roboto hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Mr. Roboto?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED