Johnny B. Goode · Chuck Berry

110 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-61 and 66-73, and 1 more place -- 85% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
JOHNNY B. GOODE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 6 sections: 101 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-61.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Johnny B. Goode?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Johnny B. Goode hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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