Drive (From F1® The Movie) · Ed Sheeran

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13 and 15, and 13 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
DRIVE (FROM F1® THE MOVIE) · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 12 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 37 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive (From F1® The Movie)?

80 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 Drive (From F1® The Movie) hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drive (From F1® The Movie)?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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