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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

106

LENGTH

4:38

DIFFICULTY

54/100

snare through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-42 and snare through bars 43-46, and 5 more changes after that.

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

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

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through Part B and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 15-47 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Bars 61-67 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 71-103 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.