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Rot · Dry Kill Logic

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove I -- Chorus
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PART B
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIZFOL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rot on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-42 and silence through bars 43-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-57, 74-81 and 96-107 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x--x--|
Rot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 37, 41, 58 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, Z -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-42 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-77 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rot?

138 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 Rot hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rot?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 37, 41, 58 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED