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Rocket · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Groove N -- Part N
189 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART N, PART S
PART B
PART K
PART N
PART S
PART K
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART N
PART S
9 groovesGKSEN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocket on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
6:08
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, snare through bars 66-67, hi-hat through bars 68-81, snare through bars 82-84, hi-hat through bars 85-121 and snare through bars 122-123, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-o-----|
T1 |x-x-x---x-----x-|--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
T2 |----------x-x---|----------------|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Rocket -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-34 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED