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The Rock Show · blink-182

EXERCISE 15 OF 37
2-bar fill at bar 37 and 1 more
96 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Rock Show on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and snare through bars 35-40, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

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

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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-30 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 41-95 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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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