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Rock The House · AC/DC

EXERCISE 7 OF 14
Groove H
53 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBS1S3S5S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock The House on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 8-18 and 20-22, and 6 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x--x--|
Rock The House -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 19, 23, 24 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock The House?

92 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 The House hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 The House?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 19, 23, 24 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED