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Renegades of Funk · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCGES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Renegades of Funk on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, toms through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-28, 37-44 and 54, and 5 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Renegades of Funk -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 64, 124 and 136.

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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-40 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-92 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Renegades of Funk?

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 Renegades of Funk hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Renegades of Funk?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 64, 124 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED