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Rock 'n' Roll Train · AC/DC

EXERCISE 3 OF 18
Groove E -- Part E
59 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 51 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock 'n' Roll Train on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-123, snare through bars 124-125 and silence through bars 126-128.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rock 'n' Roll Train -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-84 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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