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Rorschach · El Cuarteto De Nos

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBCJK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rorschach on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 3-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70 and toms through bars 71-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-22 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 34, 66, 71, 72, 73 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-51 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rorschach?

85 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 Rorschach hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rorschach?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 14, 34, 66, 71, 72, 73 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED