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Rock and a Hard Place · Darren Korb

EXERCISE 2 OF 70
Groove M -- Part M
52 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART AC
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART AH
PART M
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEMAHART+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock and a Hard Place on drums

190 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, toms through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-44, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-20 and 50-52, and 5 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                                7
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--|------x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--x-----------|
Rock and a Hard Place -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, 61 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-175 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock and a Hard Place?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock and a Hard Place hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 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.

How many fills are in Rock and a Hard Place?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 28, 29, 61 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED