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Revolver · Thornhill

EXERCISE 6 OF 65
Groove L -- Part L
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART L
PART S6
CHORUS
PART U
PART X
PART AF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
17 groovesOS1ANS6X+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 6
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revolver on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-34 and toms through bars 35-43, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-66 and 115-129 -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51                                               52
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------------x-----------------x-----------------|
Revolver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-35 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revolver?

150 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 Revolver hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Revolver?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED