The Rockafeller Skank · Fatboy Slim

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 21-23 and 34-47, and 6 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE ROCKAFELLER SKANK · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 113 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-90.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesEDBCG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rockafeller Skank?

87 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 Rockafeller Skank hard to play on drums?

53 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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