The Promise · When In Rome

102 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-43, 45-81 and 83-102 -- 96.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 119 BPM
THE PROMISE · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 2 sections: 94 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-102.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Promise?

119 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 The Promise hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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