Rolling in the Deep · Adele

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 5 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
ROLLING IN THE DEEP · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81, 82 and 2 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 70 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOBAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rolling in the Deep?

105 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 Rolling in the Deep hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rolling in the Deep?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81, 82 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Adele drum parts

EVERY ADELE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →