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The Rumbling · SiM

EXERCISE 33 OF 56
Groove V -- Part V
89 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, PART AB, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AB
CHORUS 4
PART S11
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDRS11VAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rumbling on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
The Rumbling -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-29 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-59 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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