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Rose Thorn Necklace · Ghost Bath

Rose Thorn Necklace · Ghost Bath
EXERCISE 28 OF 61
Groove T -- Part T
59 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART T
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART T
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesINAFXS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rose Thorn Necklace on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
100/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37, and 1 more place -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Rose Thorn Necklace -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 32, 36, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rose Thorn Necklace?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rose Thorn Necklace hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rose Thorn Necklace?

18 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 32, 36, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED