Rock This Town · Stray Cats

167 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
204 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-60, 62-114 and 116-152, and 1 more place -- 96.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 204 BPM
ROCK THIS TOWN · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 166.

LOOP · 204 BPM
BAR 166 · LANDS ON BAR 167
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 2 sections: 157 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-60.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rock This Town?

204 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rock This Town hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rock This Town?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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