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Still Rock And Roll To Me · Billy Joel

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-21)
69 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Rock And Roll To Me on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-62, snare through bars 63-68, hi-hat through bars 69-94 and kick and crashes through bars 95-98.

The beat

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.

    51
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Still Rock And Roll To Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-93 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-43 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED