Rockstar · Nickelback

75 bars, 4:06, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 42-44, and 4 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ROCKSTAR · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 57 and 64.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJHCIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rockstar?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Rockstar hard to play on drums?

47 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rockstar?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 56, 57 and 64.

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