Rocket · Def Leppard

251 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 6:08 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-28, 78-81 and 126-197 -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 164 BPM
ROCKET · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 249, 250 and 251.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 249-251 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 22 sections: 210 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-197.

PART B
PART K
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
9 groovesGKSEN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocket?

164 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 Rocket hard to play on drums?

46 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Rocket?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 249, 250 and 251.

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