This Ole House · Shakin' Stevens

142 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-24, and 3 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
THIS OLE HOUSE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 8 sections: 134 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Ole House?

195 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 This Ole House hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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