Let The Good Times Roll · Joe Bonamassa

206 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 5:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 31-60 and 67-72, and 5 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 147 BPM
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 61, 109, 140, 141, 152 and 8 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 140-141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 152-153 · LANDS ON BAR 154 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 12 sections: 127 keep time, 14 are fills, 42 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-138.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesBCIS11E+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let The Good Times Roll?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Good Times Roll hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Let The Good Times Roll?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 61, 109, 140, 141, 152 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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