Rebel Yell (150) · Billy Idol

197 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 42-48 and 70-76, and 7 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
REBEL YELL (150) · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 69, 77, 85 and 13 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 9 sections: 148 keep time, 20 are fills, 21 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-160.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIDQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rebel Yell (150)?

150 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 Rebel Yell (150) hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rebel Yell (150)?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 41, 49, 69, 77, 85 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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