Roman Holiday · Fontaines DC

125 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 22-28, and 15 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ROMAN HOLIDAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 124.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 4 sections: 104 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-50.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roman Holiday?

122 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 Roman Holiday 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Roman Holiday?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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