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Roam · Belle For The Sky

Roam · Belle For The Sky
EXERCISE 10 OF 80
Groove D -- Part D
33 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART K
PART Y
PART AQ
PART BG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS15YBGAQK+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roam on drums

185 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 3:43 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, snare through bars 35-39, hi-hat through bars 40-59 and snare through bars 60-68, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 77-79, 85-87 and 92-95 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Roam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- AQ -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roam?

170 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Roam hard to play on drums?

51 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?

185 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Roam?

17 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED