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Rolling In The Deep · Adele

EXERCISE 16 OF 32
Groove I
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEQS1A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rolling In The Deep on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-75, ride through bars 76-78, hi-hat through bars 79-80 and toms through bars 81-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-37 and 67-74 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---------------|
Rolling In The Deep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-83 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rolling In The Deep?

105 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 Rolling In The Deep hard to play on drums?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rolling In The Deep?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED