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Rock 'N' Roll Star · Oasis

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKGJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock 'N' Roll Star on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-138, ride through bars 139-146, kick and crashes through bars 147-154 and snare through bars 155-179.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-47 and 49, and 12 more places -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Rock 'N' Roll Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 48, 50, 54, 88, 90 and 4 more.

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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock 'N' Roll Star?

138 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 'N' Roll Star hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Star?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 48, 50, 54, 88, 90 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED