Jailhouse Rock · Elvis Presley

109 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-36 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 167 BPM
JAILHOUSE ROCK · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-109.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Jailhouse Rock?

167 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 Jailhouse Rock hard to play on drums?

53 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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