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Roommates · Malcolm Todd

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roommates on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-26, silence through bars 27-41, ride through bars 42-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-73 and silence through bars 74-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    42
    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 -- 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 9 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 24-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED