Romanticizing · Bindweed

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROMANTICIZING · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 11 and 20.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-10.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesECPQM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Romanticizing?

120 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 Romanticizing hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Romanticizing?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 11 and 20.

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