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Township Rebellion · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Groove P -- Part P
80 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART P
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
VERSE
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCPJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Township Rebellion on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-45 and silence through bars 46-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 13 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 35, 36, 69, 70, 78 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-45 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-106 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Township Rebellion?

133 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 Township Rebellion hard to play on drums?

60 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Township Rebellion?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 35, 36, 69, 70, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED