The Rumbling · SiM

132 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 21 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
THE RUMBLING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 32 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 12-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 39 are fills, 7 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-131.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART S11
PART R
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDRS11VAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rumbling?

145 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 Rumbling hard to play on drums?

57 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Rumbling?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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