A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears · Electric Chair Suicide

134 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 78-84, and 1 more place -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
A GOVERNMENT GRANT AT THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 116, 117 and 2 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 116-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 8 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-34.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFMQAUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 116, 117 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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