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Rocker · AC/DC

EXERCISE 6 OF 17
Groove D
131 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART E
PART S7
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBECS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocker on drums

164 bars at 236 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
236 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-62, snare through bars 63-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-110, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 30-37 and 127-141, and 3 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-66 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 65-164 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rocker?

236 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 Rocker hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rocker?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED