← SONGS

Rumble Fish · Sevendust

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove A -- Part A
0 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
BREAK
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDAAAN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rumble Fish on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-53, toms through bars 54-60, silence through bars 61-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- A, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-55 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-56 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-58 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Rumble Fish?

111 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 Rumble Fish hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rumble Fish?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED