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Rogue Mission · Alternative Competition 4

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rogue Mission on drums

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 2:19 of playing on hi-hat, snare 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
155 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60 and silence through bars 61-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 3 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    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-x-----|
Rogue Mission -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rogue Mission?

155 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rogue Mission 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED