RomCom · Rob Deniel

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ROMCOM · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 17-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 19 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-31.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGNVE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RomCom?

102 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 RomCom 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 RomCom?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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