Rome Wasn't Built In a Day · Morcheeba

100 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Electronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-19 and 21-26, and 9 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 53.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-81.

PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesCBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rome Wasn't Built In a Day?

112 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 Rome Wasn't Built In a Day hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rome Wasn't Built In a Day?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 27 and 53.

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