Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo · Rick Derringer

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 39, and 10 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ROCK AND ROLL, HOOCHIE KOO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 33 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 39 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesHBCXS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo?

98 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, Hoochie Koo hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo?

16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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