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Room A Thousand Years Wide · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 6 OF 26
Join Part B to Part D (bars 7-9)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D
PART B
PART D
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART O
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesS10DEOB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Room A Thousand Years Wide on drums

83 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-51, ride through bars 52-57 and silence through bars 58-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7-8 and 23-24, and 1 more place -- 17.5% 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---o---o---|
SD |----X-------X-------X---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----x-----x-|
Room A Thousand Years Wide -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-18 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Room A Thousand Years Wide?

112 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 A Thousand Years Wide hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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.

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