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Romanticizing · Bindweed

Romanticizing · Bindweed
EXERCISE 24 OF 36
Groove N
59 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romanticizing on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-37, silence through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------x--x--------x--x--|
Romanticizing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-38 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-54 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED