Rock Me · Great White

251 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 163-169, 171-173 and 175-176, and 14 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ROCK ME · BAR 164
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 149, 150, 162, 193, 194, 210 and 1 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 149-150 · LANDS ON BAR 151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 193-194 · LANDS ON BAR 195 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 210 · LANDS ON BAR 211

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 15 sections: 220 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-49.

PART A
PART B
PART G
PART L
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesTAGLB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Me?

144 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 Me hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rock Me?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 149, 150, 162, 193, 194, 210 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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