Rock Candy · Montrose

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 49-50, and 7 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ROCK CANDY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 17 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHIAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Candy?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Candy 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Candy?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 20, 32, 44, 56, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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