Rock 'n' Roll Train · AC/DC

128 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 6 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROCK 'N' ROLL TRAIN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 79.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-29.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
5 groovesBES1S8AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock 'n' Roll Train?

120 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 Train hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Train?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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