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Who Was in My Room Last Night? · Butthole Surfers

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Chorus 2 into Part F with the record (bars 71-78)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
PART S1
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who Was in My Room Last Night? on drums

146 bars, 14:30, at 40 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
40 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
14:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-46, 60-70 and 74-75, and 4 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Who Was in My Room Last Night? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 71, 79, 99 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-136 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Who Was in My Room Last Night??

40 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Who Was in My Room Last Night? hard to play on drums?

44 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 14:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Who Was in My Room Last Night??

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 47, 55, 59, 71, 79, 99 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED