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Chapter 6

Playing Hard Rock

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PLAYING HARD ROCK

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CHAPTER VI

“Don’t 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.

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LESSON 21

TECHNIQUE/THEORY

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Listen to “Don’t Look Down,” and then play along with the recording. Try to match the keyboard part. This

tune has two parts.

LISTEN

P L A Y

First Comping Part

Second Comping Part

PAD COMPING

The chords are long and sustained in this tune. This way of playing chords is called pad comping . It is most

effective with organs and electronic keyboards set to sounds that hold without fading, such as string and

organ sounds.

Pad comping works well especially when the other instruments are playing busier parts. “Don’t Look Down” has

a busy bass line and rock drum beat, as well as an active melody. The keyboard’s pad comping part holds it all

together:

Melody

Keyboard

Bass

For variety, you may wish to double the bass line with your left hand:

Melody

Keyboard

Bass

LESSON 22

LEARNING THE GROOVE

HOOKING UP TO HARD ROCK

LISTEN

P L A Y

Listen to “Don’t 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. It’s 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.

Listen to a few choruses of “Don’t Look Down.” Find the pulse and clap on the backbeat, along with the

snare drum.

Tap the quarter-note pulse with your left hand, tap the backbeat with your right hand, and count the sixteenths.

When you are ready, do this along with the recording.

Right Hand

(Backbeat)

Left Hand

(Pulse)

Count

e+ a 2 e+ a

e + a4 e + a

(16ths)

LEARNING “DON’T LOOK DOWN”

LISTEN

P L A Y

“Don’t Look Down” has two different parts with two different rhythmic feels. In the first part, the keyboard

plays the pad comping chords. Since there is just one attack on the downbeat of each measure, these are easy

to play.

LESSON 22: LEARNING THE GROOVE

Listen to the first part of “Don’t Look Down.” Feel the sixteenth-note subdivision even when you play simple

parts like this, especially if you plan to improvise a solo, where you might decide to use faster rhythms.

The second part has a syncopation. Tap the comping rhythms to the second part of “Don’t Look Down.”

Accent the syncopated note.

LISTEN

P L A Y

Right Hand

(Comping Rhythm)

Left Hand

(Pulse)

Count

1 e+a

e + a

e +a

(16ths)

Play the second written comping part. While you play, count the sixteenths and hook up with the groove.

LISTEN

P L A Y

Second Comping Part

Count

(16ths)

e + a 2 e +

a 3 e + a 4 e + a

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