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RomCom · Rob Deniel

EXERCISE 4 OF 43
Groove N -- Part N
46 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART N
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play RomCom on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-67, snare through bars 68-70, ride through bars 71-73 and silence through bars 74-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x---x-|
RomCom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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