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Keep On Rockin' In The Free World · Neil Young

EXERCISE 9 OF 40
Run B1 · Part B (bars 1-11)
122 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep On Rockin' In The Free World on drums

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

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-68, ride through bars 69-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86 and snare through bars 87-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Keep On Rockin' In The Free World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-136 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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