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Rusted Wheel · Silversun Pickups

EXERCISE 7 OF 23
Run C1 · Part C (bars 29-44)
96 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBGCS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rusted Wheel on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-28 and 45-54 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rusted Wheel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 76 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-112 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rusted Wheel?

96 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 Rusted Wheel hard to play on drums?

51 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Rusted Wheel?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 76 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED