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Romeo Delight · Van Halen

EXERCISE 17 OF 55
Groove L -- Outro
159 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART M
PART J
PART F
PART D
PART D
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesADJOAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Romeo Delight on drums

221 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 15 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Romeo Delight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 76, 114, 150 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- D, A -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-57 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-97 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-95 -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 42-77 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-108 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Romeo Delight?

214 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Romeo Delight hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Romeo Delight?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 76, 114, 150 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED