School's Out · Alice Cooper

107 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-47 and 77-84 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SCHOOL'S OUT · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 8, 36, 48, 71, 72 and 1 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 7 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-104.

PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIMVDP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is School's Out?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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's Out hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in School's Out?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 8, 36, 48, 71, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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