Room With A View · Donots

136 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 57-63 and 65-71, and 6 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ROOM WITH A VIEW · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 24, 55, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 11 sections: 104 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBCKI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Room With A View?

140 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 Room With A View hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 With A View?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 23, 24, 55, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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