Still Rock And Roll To Me · Billy Joel

98 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-32, 51-62 and 75-85 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 139 BPM
STILL ROCK AND ROLL TO ME · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 98.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 82 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAEFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Rock And Roll To Me?

139 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 Still Rock And Roll To Me hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Still Rock And Roll To Me?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 98.

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