The Heavy Rockers · The Blunts

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-31 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE HEAVY ROCKERS · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 8, 9 and 57.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 4 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGHLJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Heavy Rockers?

120 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 The Heavy Rockers hard to play on drums?

32 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Heavy Rockers?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 2, 8, 9 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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