← SONGS

Rebel Yell (150) · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove E
117 / 197 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rebel Yell (150) on drums

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.

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

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

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-103, snare through bars 104-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-121, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rebel Yell (150) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-114 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 118-170 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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