Drive · R.E.M.

121 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 37-39 and 49, and 12 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
DRIVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 112 and 120.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 16 sections: 42 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-67.

PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART S9
9 groovesBS4S9DA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive?

141 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?

40 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Drive?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 112 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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