Rolling In The Deep · Adele

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-37 and 67-74 -- 21.7% 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 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81 and 82.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-93.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCEQS1A+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?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Rolling In The Deep?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 66, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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