Rumble · Link Wray

101 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 2:25 of playing on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-51 and 59-100 -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RUMBLE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 4 sections: 97 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-51.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rumble?

125 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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