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Rolling In The Deep (with intro) · Adele

EXERCISE 10 OF 21
Groove F
67 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCES1BA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rolling In The Deep (with intro) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-78, silence through bars 79-80, snare through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-49 and 67-74 -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rolling In The Deep (with intro) -- 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 26, 50, 58, 81, 82, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-27 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 58-83 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rolling In The Deep (with intro)?

104 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 (with intro) hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rolling In The Deep (with intro)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 81, 82, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED