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

EXERCISE 5 OF 60
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76                                               77
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------------------x-----------|x-----------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----|------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|x-----------------x-----x-----------------------|
God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AG, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-24 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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