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Rolling in the Deep · Adele

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Run B1 · Part B (bars 11-24)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOBAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rolling in the Deep on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-74, ride through bars 75-79, snare through bars 80-82 and ride through bars 83-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 5 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rolling in the Deep -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81, 82 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 -- F, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-83 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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?

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

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81, 82 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED