Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass) · LYNYRD SKYNYRD

138 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-10 and 13-19, and 15 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WHISKEY ROCK-A-ROLLER (WITH BASS) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 106 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-35.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART X
8 groovesFNXJE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass)?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass) 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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