More Than This · Roxy Music

138 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 17-25, and 16 more places -- 72.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
MORE THAN THIS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 30, 34, 38, 40 and 11 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 8 sections: 90 keep time, 17 are fills, 23 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-26.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBIWS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is More Than This?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 More Than This hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in More Than This?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 30, 34, 38, 40 and 11 more.

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