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Roommates (for band) · Malcolm Todd

EXERCISE 5 OF 11
Join Part B to Part S2 (bars 8-10)
57 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART S2
PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roommates (for band) on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-25, ride through bars 26-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-41 and 58-73 -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Roommates (for band) -- 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 10 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-60 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Roommates (for band)?

109 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 Roommates (for band) hard to play on drums?

49 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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