Train Kept A Rollin' · Aerosmith

217 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
8:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-79, 81-84 and 90-91, and 17 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN' · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

217 bars across 22 sections: 121 keep time, 20 are fills, 51 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-152.

PART C
PART C
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
11 groovesROCME+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Train Kept A Rollin'?

100 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 Train Kept A Rollin' hard to play on drums?

44 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 8:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 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 Train Kept A Rollin'?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED
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