The Rock Show · blink-182

138 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 27 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 193 BPM
THE ROCK SHOW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 34, 37, 38 and 21 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 86 keep time, 27 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-119.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rock Show?

193 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Rock Show hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 The Rock Show?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 34, 37, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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