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Rock Hard Ride Free · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove N -- Chorus
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0 / 71 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART E
PART AH
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNEYJAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Hard Ride Free on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-78, toms through bars 79-80, hi-hat through bars 81-129 and ride through bars 130-144, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-52, 72-74 and 76-77, and 8 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rock Hard Ride Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 46, 55, 71, 78, 79 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- N, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-42 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-47 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock Hard Ride Free?

134 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 Rock Hard Ride Free hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hard Ride Free?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 46, 55, 71, 78, 79 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED