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Rabid · SENTRY

Rabid · SENTRY
EXERCISE 3 OF 53
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
43 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART S1
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
BREAK
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIQADLF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rabid on drums

156 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57 and toms through bars 58-61, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |--x---x---xx--x-|
Rabid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 65, 87 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-53 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rabid?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rabid hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rabid?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 49, 57, 65, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED