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Rope · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
PART Z
8 groovesDMGZN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rope on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-52, snare through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-92, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |--x--x--x-x-----|
Rope -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 80, 84 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rope?

138 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 Rope hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Rope?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 80, 84 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED