Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen

100 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-31, and 13 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
HOTEL ROOM · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 85 and 99.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 81 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDKS7S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hotel Room?

162 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 Hotel Room hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hotel Room?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 41, 85 and 99.

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