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Round Here · Counting Crows

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 20-22)
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0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBIES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Round Here on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-54 and snare through bars 55-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 55-61 and 63-77, and 1 more place -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 44, 62, 78, 85 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-39 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 37-54 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Round Here?

95 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 Here hard to play on drums?

31 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Round Here?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 44, 62, 78, 85 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED