Roswell 47 · Hypocrisy

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 26-40 and 58-64 -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
ROSWELL 47 · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 21 and 13 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 71 keep time, 19 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGEKQBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roswell 47?

107 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 Roswell 47 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Roswell 47?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 21 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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