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Rocky Mountain Way · Eagles

EXERCISE 18 OF 32
Groove Q -- Part Q
62 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART Q
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS9IMJW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocky Mountain Way on drums

128 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 6:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-54, ride through bars 55-60, hi-hat through bars 61-86 and silence through bars 87-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 61-63 and 73-75, and 1 more place -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Rocky Mountain Way -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 52, 53, 54 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 55-64 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rocky Mountain Way?

125 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Rocky Mountain Way hard to play on drums?

46 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rocky Mountain Way?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 52, 53, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED