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Long Live Rock N Roll · Rainbow

EXERCISE 10 OF 29
Groove H
119 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Live Rock N Roll on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 34 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Long Live Rock N Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 18-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-90 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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