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Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen

Hotel Room · Ax and the Hatchetmen
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hotel Room on drums

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

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-65, snare through bars 66-73, hi-hat through bars 74-77, snare through bars 78-81 and silence through bars 82-85, and 2 more changes after that.

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 -- 38.5% 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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-75 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED