The Rosebush · Nuclei

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-27 and 60 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE ROSEBUSH · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 48 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 54 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-83.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART AJ
PART AM
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNBAQAJAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rosebush?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Rosebush hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 18 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Rosebush?

11 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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