Rock Of Peace · AA Le Composer

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 2 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ROCK OF PEACE · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12 and 50 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 12 sections: 58 keep time, 56 are fills, 8 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-34.

PART A
PART I
BREAK
PART S4
PART Z
PART AG
CHORUS
12 groovesAMS4IZA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Of Peace?

140 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 Of Peace hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Of Peace?

8 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 12 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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