Long Live Rock N Roll · Rainbow

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 28-29, and 15 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLL · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 25, 26 and 24 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 13 sections: 100 keep time, 30 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-74.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCGJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Live Rock N Roll?

140 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 Long Live Rock N Roll hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Long Live Rock N Roll?

7 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 25, 26 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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