Drive · Incubus

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Funk / SoulAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-23 and 25-32, and 3 more places -- 70.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 91 BPM
DRIVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 86.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-85.

PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive?

91 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 hard to play on drums?

44 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drive?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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