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Rock N Roll Masterpiece · Blazed

EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIDS1M+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock N Roll Masterpiece on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40, ride through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-40, 58-67 and 76-85 -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---------------|x---x-------x---|
HH |----x-x-o---x-o-|----x-xxo-----x-|
SD |--x-----r-x---r-|--x-------x---r-|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|x---x---x-x-x-x-|
HF |----x-x-----x---|----x-xx------x-|
Rock N Roll Masterpiece -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-41 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock N Roll Masterpiece?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 N Roll Masterpiece hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED