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Rock n Roll is king · Elo

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

How to play Rock n Roll is king on drums

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

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-47, snare through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-122.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rock n Roll is king -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-58 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 66-111 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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