Room 24 (better version) · Volbeat

190 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-45, 54-77 and 89, and 8 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ROOM 24 (BETTER VERSION) · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 87, 91, 112 and 4 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 16 sections: 146 keep time, 10 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-45.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
10 groovesAIJTX+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Room 24 (better version)?

135 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 Room 24 (better version) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Room 24 (better version)?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 21, 87, 91, 112 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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