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Red Like Roses Part 2 · Jeff Williams

Red Like Roses Part 2 · Jeff Williams
EXERCISE 17 OF 39
Join Chorus 2 to Part A (bars 78-80)
233 / 289 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART N
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
PART R
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
10 groovesGARNC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Like Roses Part 2 on drums

289 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 5:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
289
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-18, toms through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 33-38 and 41-46, and 19 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Red Like Roses Part 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 23, 61, 133, 205, 269 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, R -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 76-135 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 148-172 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 169-252 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Like Roses Part 2?

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 Red Like Roses Part 2 hard to play on drums?

63 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?

289 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Red Like Roses Part 2?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 22, 23, 61, 133, 205, 269 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 289 BARS ANALYSED