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Rock On · Brain Drain

EXERCISE 11 OF 34
Groove G
77 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock On on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-21, ride through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26 and ride through bars 27-30, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Rock On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-34 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 24-66 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED