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Roundabout · Yes

EXERCISE 25 OF 70
Join Chorus 3 to Part A (bars 106-108)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AB
BREAK 4
PART P
PART AO
OUTRO
20 groovesEABPS13S1+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Roundabout on drums

283 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 8:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
8:05
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-90, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30-33 and 35, and 15 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Roundabout -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 36, 52, 90, 127, 151 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, AB -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-102 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 68-97 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part X and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Roundabout?

133 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 Roundabout hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 8:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Roundabout?

11 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 36, 52, 90, 127, 151 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED