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Old Time Rock and Roll · Bob Seger

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 26 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBOMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old Time Rock and Roll on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-100.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Old Time Rock and Roll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED