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Room 24 · Volbeat

EXERCISE 1 OF 68
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
11 groovesHVALS14+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Room 24 on drums

172 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 5:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, ride through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-36 and ride through bars 37-45, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30 and 32-34, and 5 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Room 24 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 21, 29 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- H, V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Room 24?

135 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Room 24 hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 21, 29 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED