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Rock and Roll Love Letter · Bay City Rollers

Rock and Roll Love Letter · Bay City Rollers
EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Groove E -- Part E
54 / 103 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock and Roll Love Letter on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-53 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-71 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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