Big Dumb Rocket · Our Lady Peace

169 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-12, 25-27 and 30, and 18 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BIG DUMB ROCKET · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 18 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 11 sections: 98 keep time, 24 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCPASD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Dumb Rocket?

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

Is Big Dumb Rocket hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Big Dumb Rocket?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 40, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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