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EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEIXO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rats on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-28, ride through bars 29-40, toms through bars 41-50, ride through bars 51-58 and toms through bars 59-68, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 9 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-62 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-87 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-103 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-122 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rats?

124 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 Rats hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rats?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 18, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED