Against the Wind · Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band

152 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-20 and 22-55, and 6 more places -- 94.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AGAINST THE WIND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 152
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars: 151 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-151.

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

Questions

What BPM is Against the Wind?

110 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 Against the Wind hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Against the Wind?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 152.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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