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Renegade · Styx

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Groove AG -- Outro
39 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART H
CHORUS
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRHAAAAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Renegade on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-13, silence through bars 14-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45 and 47-48, and 14 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41               42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
Renegade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 46, 50, 59, 62 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-38 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Renegade?

93 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 Renegade hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Renegade?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 46, 50, 59, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED