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Rock Of Ages · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 6 OF 50
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Of Ages on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-69 and ride through bars 70-101.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|
RD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Rock Of Ages -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- Q, I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-18 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-31 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-48 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-71 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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