Rock Of Ages · Def Leppard

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49-50 and 53-55, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
ROCK OF AGES · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 30, 34, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 20 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART B
PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART W
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQIKBW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Of Ages?

106 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 Of Ages hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rock Of Ages?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 30, 34, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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