‎Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen

99 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100
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 -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 164 BPM
‎HOTEL ROOM · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 85 and 99.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 11 sections: 79 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHELDS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ‎Hotel Room?

164 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?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in ‎Hotel Room?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 85 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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