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Round And Round · Ratt

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Round And Round on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-59, ride through bars 60-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-77, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Round And Round -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-78 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 77-114 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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