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Rock You Like A Hurricane · Scorpions

EXERCISE 34 OF 45
Join Part Q to Part R (bars 90-92)
118 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART R
PART E
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART R
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMGIYE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rock You Like A Hurricane on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, toms through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-35, ride through bars 36-44 and toms through bars 45-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 63-67 and 71-77, and 5 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Rock You Like A Hurricane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 34, 35, 52 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- M, G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-26 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-68 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-94 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-116 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rock You Like A Hurricane?

121 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 You Like A Hurricane hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Like A Hurricane?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 25, 34, 35, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED