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The Rope · Wunderhorse

EXERCISE 20 OF 38
Join Chorus 2 to Part J (bars 54-56)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLBJG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rope on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-55, ride through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-68, ride through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 26 and 29-35, and 1 more place -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-37 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-68 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-93 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rope?

132 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 Rope hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Rope?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 6 more.

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