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The Heavy Rockers · The Blunts

The Heavy Rockers · The Blunts
EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Run L1 · Outro 2 (bars 64-76)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGHLJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Heavy Rockers on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
32/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-15, ride through bars 16-31 and snare through bars 32-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-31 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--------x-------|
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Heavy Rockers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 8, 9 and 57.

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 -- G, H, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-43 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-58 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-67 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Heavy Rockers?

120 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 The Heavy Rockers hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Heavy Rockers?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 8, 9 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED