Roommates · Malcolm Todd

100 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-57 and 85-100 -- 55.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROOMMATES · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-57.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBS1S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roommates?

120 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?

42 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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