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Rose Of Sharyn · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 26 OF 42
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 97-99)
126 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART F
PART B
PART J
PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
8 groovesQFJBS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rose Of Sharyn on drums

178 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, snare through bars 50-65, ride through bars 66-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-97, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 99-102, 107-110 and 126, and 6 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99               100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|x-------------x-|
Rose Of Sharyn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 33, 65, 114, 118, 122 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- Q, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-34 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-69 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 95-115 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 114-134 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rose Of Sharyn?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rose Of Sharyn hard to play on drums?

52 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Rose Of Sharyn?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 33, 65, 114, 118, 122 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED