Rough Boy · ZZ Top

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-29, 31-32 and 35-37, and 13 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 79 BPM
ROUGH BOY · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 4 sections: 90 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-95.

PART C
PART E
OUTRO
VERSE
4 groovesJFECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rough Boy?

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 Rough Boy hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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