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Testify · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Testify on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-68, hi-hat through bars 69-77, snare through bars 78-84, toms through bars 85-93 and snare through bars 94-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-75, 77-84 and 93-100 -- 82.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Testify -- 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 76 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Testify?

118 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 Testify hard to play on drums?

58 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 Testify?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 76 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED