Mr. Roboto · Styx

168 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-44 and 46, and 6 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MR. ROBOTO · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 45 and 16 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 12-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time, 22 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-107.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
PART S
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
8 groovesJGSYT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Roboto?

120 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 Mr. Roboto hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 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 Mr. Roboto?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 45 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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