Rock Steady · Bad Company

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 37-52 and 63-65 -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ROCK STEADY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 15 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock Steady?

100 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 Steady 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Steady?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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