Steamrollin' · Esophagus

99 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-33, 45-47 and 53-56 -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
STEAMROLLIN' · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 75.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 2 are fills, 44 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-66.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDABS7G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Steamrollin'?

150 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 Steamrollin' hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Steamrollin'?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 52 and 75.

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