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Fast Road · Great White

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove L -- Chorus
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PART B
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
4 groovesLIBTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast Road on drums

234 bars at 259 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
259 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-35, hi-hat through bars 36-105, snare through bars 106-107, hi-hat through bars 108-123 and ride through bars 124-137, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-73, 76-105 and 108-114, and 6 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Fast Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 35, 123 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fast Road?

259 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fast Road hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 Fast Road?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 35, 123 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED