I Love Rock N' Roll · Joan Jett

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 14-17, and 10 more places -- 75.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
I LOVE ROCK N' ROLL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 35.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 3 sections: 68 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Love Rock N' Roll?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Love Rock N' Roll 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Love Rock N' Roll?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 35.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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