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The Rage · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 17 OF 27
Join Part B to Chorus 4 (bars 119-121)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesDBGFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rage on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, snare through bars 25-51, hi-hat through bars 52-56 and snare through bars 57-70, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33, and 17 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
The Rage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-154 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-108 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 117-148 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rage?

151 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 Rage hard to play on drums?

41 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 The Rage?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED