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We Are Rogue (AI) · Hedged

EXERCISE 34 OF 87
Groove U
63 / 133 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AI
PART AN
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesBNANAIH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Rogue (AI) on drums

133 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, snare through bars 33-34, toms through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-58, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 13, and 8 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x--x--------x-----x-----------|
We Are Rogue (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 20, 23 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are Rogue (AI)?

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

Is We Are Rogue (AI) hard to play on drums?

62 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 We Are Rogue (AI)?

23 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 19, 20, 23 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED