It Must Have Been The Roses · Grateful Dead

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 6:15 of playing, on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 10-24 and 28-33, and 10 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 5 sections: 123 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-45.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It Must Have Been The Roses?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is It Must Have Been The Roses hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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