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

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass) on drums

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.

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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, ride through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-125 and kick and crashes through bars 126-132, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--------|
Whiskey Rock-A-Roller (with bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 90-107 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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