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Revolver · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 45 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART A
OUTRO
9 groovesEBJHO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revolver on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 3-42, snare through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-90, snare through bars 91-114, kick and crashes through bars 115-122 and ride through bars 123-146, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-24, 26-32 and 34-42, and 4 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 50, 62, 98, 122, 126 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-63 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-106 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-118 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 129-138 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revolver?

150 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 Revolver hard to play on drums?

46 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high 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 Revolver?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 50, 62, 98, 122, 126 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED