School of Rock · School of Rock

140 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-33, 39-44 and 49-69, and 3 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
SCHOOL OF ROCK · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 34, 38 and 48.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 16 sections: 108 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-88.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
9 groovesDBFS1S2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is School of Rock?

135 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 School of Rock hard to play on drums?

42 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in School of Rock?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 34, 38 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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