Round and Round · JISOKURY

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18, 26-28 and 30-32, and 9 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
ROUND AND ROUND · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 4 sections: 80 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-85.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Round and Round?

90 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 Round and Round hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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