Desert Cruiser · Truckfighters

233 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
7:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 43-49, and 9 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DESERT CRUISER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 20 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 20 sections: 175 keep time, 26 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 190-218.

CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCAFNFS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desert Cruiser?

120 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 Desert Cruiser hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 7:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Desert Cruiser?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 50, 58 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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