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Rock 'n' Roll High School · The Ramones

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock 'n' Roll High School on drums

104 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-43, ride through bars 44-45, toms through bars 46-57, hi-hat through bars 58-63 and toms through bars 64-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 46-57 and 64-65, and 1 more place -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Rock 'n' Roll High School -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 25, 26 and 27.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock 'n' Roll High School?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock 'n' Roll High School hard to play on drums?

53 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 'n' Roll High School?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 25, 26 and 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED