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Rock Candy · Montrose

Rock Candy · Montrose
EXERCISE 29 OF 40
5-bar fill at bar 72
90 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHIAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Candy on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-71, toms through bars 72-76, snare through bars 77-94, toms through bars 95-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 49-50, and 7 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--x-----x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----x---------|
Rock Candy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-100 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-69 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock Candy?

80 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 Rock Candy hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Candy?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED