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Rock You! · Dirty Loops

Rock You! · Dirty Loops
EXERCISE 11 OF 69
3-bar fill at bar 10
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0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART L
PART O
PART L
PART O
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAALOAHAY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock You! on drums

158 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-14, silence through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-103, snare through bars 104-108, hi-hat through bars 109-135 and kick and crashes through bars 136-143, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-31, 43 and 49, and 6 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Rock You! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-70 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock You!?

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

Is Rock You! hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 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 You!?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED