Two Dozen Roses · Shenandoah

11 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TWO DOZEN ROSES · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars: 7 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

OUTRO
1 grooveEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Two Dozen Roses?

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 Two Dozen Roses hard to play on drums?

41 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?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 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 Two Dozen Roses?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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