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The Rock Show · Blink 182

EXERCISE 23 OF 48
Fill at bar 40, 68, 82 and 3 more (a small one)
120 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesADQMI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rock Show on drums

144 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-62 and snare through bars 63-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 25, and 14 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
The Rock Show -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 26, 34, 37 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-92 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 92-105 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-121 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Rock Show?

192 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?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 26, 34, 37 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED