Keep On Rockin' In The Free World · Neil Young

154 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-31 and 34-36, and 12 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
KEEP ON ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 43, 44, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 84-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 10 sections: 121 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-107.

PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHBAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep On Rockin' In The Free World?

132 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 Keep On Rockin' In The Free World hard to play on drums?

62 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?

154 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Keep On Rockin' In The Free World?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 43, 44, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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