Rock n Roll is king · Elo

122 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 19-22 and 24-32, and 14 more places -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
ROCK N ROLL IS KING · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 49 and 65.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 103 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-90.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock n Roll is king?

156 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 is king hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rock n Roll is king?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 49 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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