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Robot Rock · Daft Punk

EXERCISE 7 OF 22
Join Part B to Break (bars 9-11)
90 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
PART B
BREAK
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
PART H
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
OUTRO
VERSE 5
6 groovesDGHBS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Robot Rock on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-93 and snare through bars 94-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-27, 30-45 and 54-61, and 3 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-57 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Verse 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-133 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Robot Rock?

112 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 Robot Rock hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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