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Under The Robe · Amen

EXERCISE 25 OF 51
2-bar fill at bar 50
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesGCQIAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Under The Robe on drums

151 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, toms through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-44, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 53-68, and 6 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |-------x-------x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Under The Robe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G, C -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-29 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-93 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 77-104 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Under The Robe?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Under The Robe hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Under The Robe?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 12, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED