Drive To My World · B'Z

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 26-27, and 1 more place -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DRIVE TO MY WORLD · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 15, 19, 23 and 28 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 36 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent.

CHORUS
PART P
PART T
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDTPAFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drive To My World?

88 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 To My World hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 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 Drive To My World?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 15, 19, 23 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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