Rock Hard Ride Free · Judas Priest

189 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-52, 72-74 and 76-77, and 8 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ROCK HARD RIDE FREE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 46, 55, 71, 78, 79 and 19 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 78-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 18 sections: 122 keep time, 25 are fills, 15 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-122.

PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART E
PART AH
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNEYJAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Hard Ride Free?

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 Hard Ride Free hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hard Ride Free?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 46, 55, 71, 78, 79 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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