I Love Rock 'N Roll · Joan Jett And The Blackhearts

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 19-21, and 8 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
I LOVE ROCK 'N ROLL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-49.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Love Rock 'N Roll?

98 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?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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