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Rokrok · Bombbis

EXERCISE 24 OF 26
Run J1 · Part J (bars 64-69)
85 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADCFJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rokrok on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-12 and 21-24, and 5 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 40, 59, 63, 68, 69 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-21 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-53 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Rokrok?

150 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 Rokrok 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Rokrok?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 40, 59, 63, 68, 69 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED