Rock And Roll · Led Zeppelin

153 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 26-28 and 30-35, and 10 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 172 BPM
ROCK AND ROLL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 36, 37, 47, 59, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 59-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 3 sections: 129 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-95.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock And Roll?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock And Roll hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 36, 37, 47, 59, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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