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Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37 · AFI

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove G -- Chorus
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PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBDJM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37 on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-61, snare through bars 62-65, hi-hat through bars 66-69, kick and crashes through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 42-48 and 66-69, and 2 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x----x---|
Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-29 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37?

90 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 Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 15, 19, 20, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED