Rock And Roll Preacher · Slade

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-23, 25-31 and 35-42, and 5 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ROCK AND ROLL PREACHER · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 10 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 13 sections: 71 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-31.

PART S3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesJS13NS3B+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock And Roll Preacher?

90 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 Preacher hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rock And Roll Preacher?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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