ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rosebush on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 90 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 124
LENGTH: 5:09
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-35, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18                               19
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o---x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-------------x---------|
BD |x-----x-------x-----x-----------|x-----x-------x-----x-----------|

The Rosebush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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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