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Rock Me · Great White

EXERCISE 16 OF 58
Run B2 · Part B (bars 71-86)
173 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Me on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-84, snare through bars 85-86, hi-hat through bars 87-162, ride through bars 163-200 and toms through bars 201-202, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    164
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Rock Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-71 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 99-105 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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