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Sinister Rouge · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove A -- Part A
22 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFGACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sinister Rouge on drums

89 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 1:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 33-39 and 65-71 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-33 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-73 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sinister Rouge?

191 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sinister Rouge hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 Sinister Rouge?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED