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    FREE music lessons fromBerklee College of Music

    Berklee Practice MethodDrum Set

    Get Your Band TogetherRon Savage, Casey Scheuerell, andthe Berklee Faculty

    Chapter VIPlaying Hard Rock

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    PLAYING ROCK CHAPTER 1

    57

    PLAYING HARD ROCK CHAPTER VI

    LESSON 21TECHNIQUE/THEORY

    Listen to Dont Look Down, and then play along with the recording. Try to match the drum part. This tune

    has two parts.

    To learn the beat, follow these three steps:

    1. Start with the hi-hat.

    2. Add the snare drum.

    3. Add the bass drum.

    This is the beat to the first part:

    This is the beat to the second part (also the intro):

    Play Dont Look Down along with the recording. Hook up with the groove.

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    Dont Look Down is a hard rock tune. Hard rock first appeared in the late

    1960s. It has characteristic heavy bass, long, drawn-out chords, and amplified

    instruments. To hear more hard rock, listen to artists such as Aerosmith,

    Metallica, Powerman 5000, the Allman Brothers Band, Rob Zombie,Godsmack, 311, Stone Temple Pilots, Black Crowes, Steve Vai, and Smashing

    Pumpkins. don

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    Step 3

    Bass Drum

    Snare Drum

    Step 2

    Hi-Hat

    Step 1

    Step 3

    Bass DrumSnare Drum

    Step 2

    Hi-Hat

    Step 1

    LEARNING THE BEAT

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    RIDE HAND

    Listen to the continuous eighth notes. Each downbeat (eighth note on the beat) uses a downstroke, and each upbeat

    (eighth note offthe beat) uses an upstroke. Practice playing the bass drum without affecting the feel of the ride

    hand, especially in the second beat.

    Keep the hi-hat closed during the first part. During the second part, play it with the foot on beats 2 and 4.

    SNARE HAND

    Play a solid snare backbeat.

    FOOT

    The bass drum part in the second beat is syncopated, which makes it tricky. Keep your foot independent of your

    hands, so that your eighth notes dont get louder when they coincide with the bass drum.

    FLAMS

    Aflam is a normal stroke closely preceded by a softer stroke (grace note). One reason that the ending of Dont

    Look Down sounds so powerful is that the drummer is playing flams. Flams are two attacks played so closely

    together that they sound like one big attack.

    Practice flams, alternating hands.

    L R R L L R R L

    PRACTICE TIP

    Vary your intensity on the hi-hat notes. Develop your sense of where on the surface to play,

    and how open to keep the cymbals. This will help you create different levels of wash.

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    LESSON 22: LEARNING THE GROOVE 59

    LISTEN P L A Y23

    Listen to Dont Look Down. This tune has a standard rock/metal groove. It is a heavy feel, with very simple

    drum and bass parts. These parts must be simple because they are intended to be played in large arenas, where

    echoes would make busier parts sound muddy. Its a case of less is more.

    Eighth notes are played straight, not with a swing feel. The bass drum plays on beats 1 and 3, which is typical

    of rock drum beats.

    HOOKING UP WITH THE BAND

    This tune has an active bass part and a relatively straight-ahead drum part, which is different than the other

    tunes weve been playing. On the second part, the guitar and bass play the riff in unison (together). This is a

    big, powerful sound. The keyboard plays long, sustained chords. The drums are the glue, keeping the strong

    backbeat on the snare, and crashing on each bars downbeat.

    LESSON 22LEARNING THE GROOVE

    HARD ROCK

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    LESSON 24READING

    DRUM PART

    First and second ending markings. The first time you play these measures, play thefirst

    endingthe measures under the number 1.

    Then return to the begin-repeat sign (). The second time, skip the first ending and play the

    second endingthe measures under the number 2. Then, continue through the rest of the form.

    Play Dont Look Down along with the recording. Use the written drum part.

    LISTEN P L A Y

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    Hi-HatC

    (19)

    G Cfill

    After solos, D.S. alG

    (20)

    CODA

    G

    BHi-Hat

    SolosF

    14 Bars Groove fill

    (16)

    B17Ride

    C G C

    (18)

    G

    2

    G

    (15)

    fill

    (16)

    Ride

    A17C G C

    (18)

    G C

    (19)

    G Cfill

    G

    (20)

    To Coda

    A

    Hi-HatF C

    (2)

    G

    (3) (4)

    F

    (5)

    C

    (6)

    1

    G

    (7) (8)

    Intro Ride fill

    "Hard Rock" = 88

    Dont Look DownC

    Drum Part

    G C G C G C

    By Matt Marvuglio

    G

    1 2

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    LESSON 24: READING 63

    LEAD SHEET

    Play your own part to Dont Look Down and follow the lead sheet.

    Don t Look DownBy Matt Marvuglio"Hard Rock" = 88

    Intro C G C G C G C G

    F C G

    F C G

    F C G

    F C G

    C G C G C G C G

    EndingUnison: bass, keys & guitarG

    A

    B

    (Bass & Guitar Riff)

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