← SONGS

Son Of Robot · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKBFS1J+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Son Of Robot on drums

122 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 109 BPM, 3:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-26, silence through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-39, toms through bars 40-42 and silence through bars 43-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 62-64, and 3 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|
Son Of Robot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 40, 41, 45 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-46 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-69 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Son Of Robot?

109 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Son Of Robot hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Son Of Robot?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 24, 25, 40, 41, 45 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED