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The Rodents Race · 156/Silence

EXERCISE 22 OF 62
Groove O
65 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS
PART W
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesIAHHWAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rodents Race on drums

124 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52, snare through bars 53-93 and kick and crashes through bars 94-99, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 21, and 13 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 14, 18, 19 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- I, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-12 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part W -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rodents Race?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Rodents Race hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rodents Race?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 14, 18, 19 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED