Let It Rock · Bon Jovi

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 19, and 15 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LET IT ROCK · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 49 and 73.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 67 keep time, 5 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-72.

PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let It Rock?

100 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 Let It Rock hard to play on drums?

44 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Let It Rock?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 49 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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