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Rocket · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 4 OF 48
Groove C -- Part C
15 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, PART N
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCNAIS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocket on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-65, silence through bars 66-70, hi-hat through bars 71-82 and kick and crashes through bars 83-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 10 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x--------------------x--x-----------x-----------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--------------x--x-----x--------------x--|
Rocket -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 20, 28 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rocket?

86 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 Rocket hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

88 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Rocket?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 20, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED