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Ropes Pt. I · Konvent

Ropes Pt. I · Konvent
EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART J
PART K
PART G
PART S12
PART N
PART N
OUTRO
13 groovesS2DNKG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ropes Pt. I on drums

244 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
34/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-81, snare through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-97, toms through bars 98-113, snare through bars 114-161 and hi-hat through bars 162-177, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-96, 166-176 and 243-244 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Ropes Pt. I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 242.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- G, D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 49-98 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 93-108 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 106-121 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 130-162 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 162-206 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ropes Pt. I?

124 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 Ropes Pt. I hard to play on drums?

34 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ropes Pt. I?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 242.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED