Rocky III • Eye of the Tiger • Survivor · Survivor

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-29, 31-45 and 47-63, and 4 more places -- 88.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
ROCKY III • EYE OF THE TIGER • SURVIVOR · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time, 1 is a fill, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-109.

OUTRO
6 groovesDS1BS4S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocky III • Eye of the Tiger • Survivor?

109 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 Rocky III • Eye of the Tiger • Survivor hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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