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Steamrollin' · Esophagus

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDABS7G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Steamrollin' on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-44, snare through bars 45-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60 and snare through bars 61-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-33, 45-47 and 53-56 -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-53 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-67 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Steamrollin'?

150 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 Steamrollin' hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Steamrollin'?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED