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Train Kept A Rollin' · Aerosmith

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove R -- Chorus 2
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PART C
PART C
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART S
CHORUS 5
11 groovesROCME+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Train Kept A Rollin' on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
8:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-36, ride through bars 37-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-49, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-79, 81-84 and 90-91, and 17 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    78
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Train Kept A Rollin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 36 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- R, O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-78 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-111 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-129 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Train Kept A Rollin'?

100 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 Train Kept A Rollin' hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 8:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Train Kept A Rollin'?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED