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Revolve · Melvins

EXERCISE 26 OF 47
Run J1 · Part J (bars 27-32)
82 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART S
PART T
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFJBST+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revolve on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 6 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    82
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----x-x---|
Revolve -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-56 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 53-71 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revolve?

95 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Revolve hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Revolve?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED