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Rock Steady · Bad Company

EXERCISE 26 OF 34
Groove M -- Outro
76 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Steady on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, snare through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 37-52 and 63-65 -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-84 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-78 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock Steady?

100 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 Steady hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Steady?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED