Here Come the Rome Plows · Drive Like Jehu

226 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 5:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 13 and 26, and 14 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HERE COME THE ROME PLOWS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 17-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 27 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 22 sections: 92 keep time, 65 are fills and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
PART M
PART D
PART M
PART D
PART M
BREAK
9 groovesCMDS22Z+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Here Come the Rome Plows?

180 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Here Come the Rome Plows hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Here Come the Rome Plows?

12 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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