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‎Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen

‎Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen
EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
95 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 99 BARS LIT
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHELDS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ‎Hotel Room on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-65, snare through bars 66-81, silence through bars 82-85, hi-hat through bars 86-97 and snare through bars 98-99.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
‎Hotel Room -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-73 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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