Round And Round · Ratt

138 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 36-42, and 12 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ROUND AND ROUND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 29, 35, 59, 63, 69 and 10 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 9 sections: 109 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBUHFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Round And Round?

128 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?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Round And Round?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 29, 35, 59, 63, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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