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Let The Good Times Roll · Joe Bonamassa

EXERCISE 22 OF 32
2-bar fill at bar 140
175 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 5
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let The Good Times Roll on drums

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

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-42, snare through bars 43-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-96, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Let The Good Times Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-63 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Bars 98-110 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 5 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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