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The Thunder Rolls · Garth Brooks

The Thunder Rolls · Garth Brooks
EXERCISE 2 OF 25
Groove J (a two-bar phrase)
17 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Thunder Rolls on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-62 and ride through bars 63-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 29 and 43-50, and 1 more place -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------r-------------------------------r---------------|
FT |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
The Thunder Rolls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 30, 31, 53, 54, 55 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase), O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-63 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Thunder Rolls?

80 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 Thunder Rolls hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Thunder Rolls?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 30, 31, 53, 54, 55 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED