A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) · America

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-63, 69-96 and 98-103, and 2 more places -- 91.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
A HORSE WITH NO NAME (ACOUSTIC VERSION) · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 4 sections: 95 keep time and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-120.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version)?

122 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 Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) hard to play on drums?

34 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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