Square Rooms · Al Corley

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-45, 47-87 and 89-95, and 1 more place -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SQUARE ROOMS · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-115.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Square Rooms?

120 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 Square Rooms hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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