ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Premier Inn on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 90 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 76
LENGTH: 3:20
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

hi-hat through bars 2-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43, snare through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-59 and snare through bars 60-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 36-38, and 1 more place -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                               12
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |------------------------------o-|--o---o---o---o---o---o---o-----|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------f---|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------------------xx|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|--------------------------------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x---x-----|
HF |--------------------------------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|

Premier Inn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 18, 22, 27, 43, 47 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 7 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Premier Inn?

90 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 Premier Inn hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Premier Inn?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 18, 22, 27, 43, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED