Rock And Roll Band · Boston

102 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 32 and 42-47, and 6 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ROCK AND ROLL BAND · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 6, 23, 24, 48, 49 and 3 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 102
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 15 sections: 73 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-40.

PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
7 groovesHFJAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock And Roll Band?

138 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 Rock And Roll Band 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?

102 bars, about 2:57 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, ride, 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 Rock And Roll Band?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 6, 23, 24, 48, 49 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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