Rock Out · Motörhead

76 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-18, and 11 more places -- 75.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ROCK OUT · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 23, 32, 33, 39, 47 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 2 sections: 62 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-75.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Out?

140 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 Out hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Out?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 23, 32, 33, 39, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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