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[Huber]

Rosetta Stoned is probably the most interesting track drum-wise on 10,000 Days. The main part in question is best heard at around 7:03. DC uses numerous pads and a snare drum (off of course). I brought this to my drum teacher a week ago and this is was we came up with:



Pads|oooooooo-ooooooooooo-ooooooooooo-ooooooooooo-ooooooooooo-ooo|
SOff|--------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o---|
Bass|o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--o-o--|



Sorry, that's probably awful hard to read, but I couldn't find a way to scan my sheet music for it. But yeah, the pad stuff is just singles rlrl, and it's best learned I think to get the bass drum's rhythm down, then add the hands part (orchestrate them however you want I guess, whatever sounds most similar to those pads) and then get to work on the snare part.

I found the video of that kid on youtube paying the song using paradiddles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unh7eDIiJYE&search=rosetta%20stoned

I don't think he's very accurate. It sounds good to the music, but I don't think it's what DC is doing.

I brought this video to my teacher and he had a go at it himself. He found that with paradiddles it would be very hard to do it on the pads, because you'd be starting over with the left hand at some parts and that would cause a ridiculous cross sticking, and with the way those pads are set up on DC's kit that would just be ridiculous. He came up with a different pattern for the hands. Instead of constant singles or paradiddles he thinks it's this:

edit: gah, I can't get the sticking to line up right...oh well. It's the same thing as the first tab but instead of rlrl straight alternate sticking it's RLRRLLRLRLRL over and over

It's the same thing we came up with before, expect the patterns on the hands are rlrrllrlrlrl instead of singles. Both the singles one and this one sound accurate, but I flat out don't like Chris Fox's transcription.

What do you guys think? Anyone else out there attempt it?

[Drummer300btx]

on the bass it looks like a pattern of 5's. He accents the 1st and 3rd note in a quintuplet. on the snare it looks like hes doing 3/4 and hitting on the 3. the little pad things are 16ths throughout.

It kinda boils down to a 5/3 polyrhythm. :)

[Huber]

http://www.moderndrummer.com/updatefull/200001476

Scroll down until you see the outline of his kit. Most people are saying he's using 4 pads, so he has to be going between the right and left sides in a eird sticking pattern, and going back to his snare.

The sticking pattern is the key here I think.

[Det_Nosnip]

Too bad that it's also probably the worst song on there. Oh, Maynard...what were you thinking?

[CARMEN77]

Too bad that it's also probably the worst song on there. Oh, Maynard...what were you thinking?


NO

NO
NO

Although the beinging sounds like slipknot or something. Blah

[GooseFilms.net]

Too bad that it's also probably the worst song on there. Oh, Maynard...what were you thinking?
I consider it a half-assed version of Third Eye

[Drummer300btx]

I like rosetta stoned. I like the "strapped down...my bed..." part. the parts where hes talking is kinda meh.

[XAQ]

this song stands out the least to me on the album also, as far as the real songs at least

[jalel]

I like rosetta stoned. I like the "strapped down...my bed..." part. the parts where hes talking is kinda meh.

"......Feet cold, eyes red
I'm out my head
Am I alive? am I dead?
Can't remember what they said
God damn **** the bed....."


Love that song. The whole damn cd is one of my favs(doesn't top aenima though....)

[xeonman9000]

The only bit that I especially like is the really Tooly interludey bit where he sings something about being "placed in my position", other than that, I'll listen to it now and again, certainly more than I did it first. At least Wings For Marie and 10,000 days more than make up for it :thumb:.

[o_zo]

Personally I love this song. It's...different,but I enjoy it. I'm actually gonna try to learn it soon which should be a nice challenge figuring out all those parts.

[GooseFilms.net]

"Overwhelmed is what you'd be if placed in my position.
Such a heavy burden, now, to be the one.
Born to bear and read you all the details of our ending,
To write them down for all the world to see.
But I forgot my pen, **** the bed again. Typical."

[CARMEN77]

The lyrics are so odd. Is maynard actually talking about meeting an alien and given the burden of enlighting the world? I think someone needs to check into a mental instituion....

[o_zo]

The lyrics are so odd. Is maynard actually talking about meeting an alien and given the burden of enlighting the world? I think someone needs to check into a mental instituion....

Possibly. What I get so far is either what you said, or someone who's really messed up on some kind of drug who's imagining everything,but then again it's all left wide open for interpretation.

[CARMEN77]

Yeah it also seems to be about a weird acid trip. What I dont get is the part about area 51...

10 to 2 AM
And actually eating up an old box of Krispy Kremes
And my "need-to-know potion"
Just outside Area 51
Contemplating the whole chosen people thing
When a flaming stealth banana split the sky like, wide open.
I never expected to see it in a place like this.
I do believe I spilled a diamond sundae
Or something wet on my Birkenstocks
And [you're yelping]
Holy ****ing ****

[The syllek attacks]

I love this song, it's not ungodly hard but it go through alot of intresting sections, it really moves, and covers alot of ground. I just think of a crazy dude whos had a nervous breakdown, he just seems like is freaking out.