Another Road · Morgan

175 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 137-175 -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 201 BPM
ANOTHER ROAD · BAR 137
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 14 sections: 136 keep time, 4 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-175.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHBCS12+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Road?

201 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Another Road hard to play on drums?

39 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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