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Rodina · Slaughter to Prevail

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART S11
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEJRCI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rodina on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39, snare through bars 40-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 11 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Rodina -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 58, 66, 83 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E, R -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-143 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rodina?

130 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 Rodina 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Rodina?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 31, 39, 58, 66, 83 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED