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Rocky Raccoon · The Beatles

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 22 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rocky Raccoon on drums

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

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, silence through bars 39-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Rocky Raccoon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-30 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED