Rock and Roll Love Letter · Bay City Rollers

103 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7 and 10-11, and 13 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ROCK AND ROLL LOVE LETTER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 and 24 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time and 30 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-95.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDEQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock and Roll Love Letter?

134 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 Love Letter hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Love Letter?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →