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Rosalita · Bruce Springsteen

EXERCISE 16 OF 93
Groove I
169 / 266 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AL
PART H
15 groovesGSHALF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 9
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rosalita on drums

266 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-69, snare through bars 70-71, hi-hat through bars 72-77 and ride through bars 78-89, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-36, 45-65 and 72-77, and 13 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Rosalita -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 40, 41 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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, S -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-37 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-48 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-87 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rosalita?

143 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 Rosalita hard to play on drums?

55 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Rosalita?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 8, 40, 41 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED