God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II · KISS

97 bars, 5:12, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53, 56 and 76-77, and 6 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
GOD GAVE ROCK 'N' ROLL TO YOU II · BARS 76-77
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19 and 21 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 48 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-27.

PART E
PART J
PART O
PART J
PART O
PART J
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGJOS10E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 15, 19 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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