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Chapter VIPlaying Hard Rock

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PLAYING ROCK CHAPTER 1

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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 tunehas 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 late1960s. It has characteristic heavy bass, long, drawn-out chords, and amplifiedinstruments. 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 SmashingPumpkins.

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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 off the beat) uses an upstroke. Practice playing the bass drum without affecting the feel of the ridehand, 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 yourhands, so that your eighth notes dont get louder when they coincide with the bass drum.

FLAMS

A flam is a normal stroke closely preceded by a softer stroke (grace note). One reason that the ending of DontLook Down sounds so powerful is that the drummer is playing flams. Flams are two attacks played so closelytogether 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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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 simpledrum and bass parts. These parts must be simple because they are intended to be played in large arenas, whereechoes 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 typicalof 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 othertunes weve been playing. On the second part, the guitar and bass play the riff in unison (together). This is abig, powerful sound. The keyboard plays long, sustained chords. The drums are the glue, keeping the strongbackbeat on the snare, and crashing on each bars downbeat.

LESSON 22LEARNING THE GROOVE

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LESSON 24READING

DRUM PART

First and second ending markings. The first time you play these measures, play the first endingthe measures under the number 1.

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

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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

AHi-Hat

F C

(2)

G

(3) (4)

F

(5)

C

(6)

1

G

(7) (8)

Intro Ride fill

"Hard Rock" = 88

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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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