Old Time Rock and Roll · Bob Seger

100 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 30-34 and 38-43, and 4 more places -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 124 BPM
OLD TIME ROCK AND ROLL · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 35, 36, 52 and 3 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBOMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Time Rock and Roll?

124 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 Old Time Rock and Roll hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Old Time Rock and Roll?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 35, 36, 52 and 3 more.

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