Roommates · Malcolm Todd

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

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

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.

LOOP · 109 BPM
ROOMMATES · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 5 sections: 55 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roommates?

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 hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. 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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