Roar Like Thunder · Buckcherry

84 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 41-43, and 5 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ROAR LIKE THUNDER · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 26, 30, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

PART E
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIECRAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roar Like Thunder?

118 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 Roar Like Thunder hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

84 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Roar Like Thunder?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 22, 26, 30, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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