Dad Rock · Trsh

91 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-44, 47-48 and 51-52, and 2 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
DAD ROCK · BARS 43-44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 17 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 25 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART F
PART I
PART N
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXAHAJSI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dad Rock?

162 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 Dad Rock hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dad Rock?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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