ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rebelion (drums) on drums

94 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:27 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 94
LENGTH: 3:27
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

ride through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-42, silence through bars 43-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-74, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-30 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23                                                               24
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x-------x-------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-----------------------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---x-----------x-------x-x-------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------x-----|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-------x-------x---x-x-x-x-----x---x---x-------x---|x-x-x-x-----x-------x-----------x-x-x-x-x--x-x------x-x-----x-x-|

Rebelion (drums) -- 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 24 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part P and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 40-70 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Rebelion (drums)?

110 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rebelion (drums) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 · 94 BARS ANALYSED