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Rock And Roll · Led Zeppelin

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock And Roll on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-146 and toms through bars 147-153.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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