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Rock Rock (Till You Drop) · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 15 OF 29
Groove M
93 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
OUTRO
5 groovesGDSS2YFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock Rock (Till You Drop) on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-71, toms through bars 72-76, hi-hat through bars 77-99, snare through bars 100-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-120, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 30-31, and 10 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Rock Rock (Till You Drop) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 8, 28, 70, 72 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock Rock (Till You Drop)?

133 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 Rock (Till You Drop) hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Rock (Till You Drop)?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 8, 28, 70, 72 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED