Rocking riff · Me

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 55 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ROCKING RIFF · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 25 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 31-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 10 sections: 29 keep time, 18 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGCLST+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocking riff?

100 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 Rocking riff hard to play on drums?

56 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Rocking riff?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 25 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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