Drift Away · Dobie Gray

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 29-31 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DRIFT AWAY · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 61, 116, 117, 125, 133 and 1 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 116-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 13 sections: 107 keep time, 7 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-103.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBNHM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drift Away?

150 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 Drift Away hard to play on drums?

31 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drift Away?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 61, 116, 117, 125, 133 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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