Roar · Katy Perry

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:45 of playing, on hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 4 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ROAR · BARS 4-5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-18.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAS5S3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roar?

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 Roar hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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