Rock On · Brain Drain

116 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Punk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-16, 18 and 20, and 17 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ROCK ON · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 41, 58, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 12 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKEBH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock On?

138 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 On hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 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 On?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 41, 58, 69 and 6 more.

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