Old Time Rock & Roll - Walter Mário · Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

99 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 14-19 and 21-26, and 12 more places -- 58.3% 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 & ROLL - WALTER MÁRIO · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 60, 64 and 5 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 4 sections: 81 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-56.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old Time Rock & Roll - Walter Mário?

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 & Roll - Walter Mário hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Old Time Rock & Roll - Walter Mário?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 60, 64 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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