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Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo · Rick Derringer

Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo · Rick Derringer
EXERCISE 19 OF 54
4-bar fill at bar 24
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0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, ride through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, ride through bars 39-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-30 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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