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.

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

TEMPO

87 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

128

LENGTH

5:53

DIFFICULTY

53/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28 and snare through bars 29-33, and 4 more changes after that.

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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 100-120 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.