Rocky Raccoon · The Beatles

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34-36 and 54-56, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 79 BPM
ROCKY RACCOON · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 61
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 10 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAGCEL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rocky Raccoon?

79 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 Raccoon hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rocky Raccoon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 61.

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