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Rock And Roll Band · Boston

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove H -- Chorus 3
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0 / 35 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock And Roll Band on drums

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.

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
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and ride through bars 42-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Rock And Roll Band -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 6, 23, 24, 48, 49 and 3 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-56 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-102 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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