Georgia On A Fast Train · Billy Joe Shaver

96 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
GEORGIA ON A FAST TRAIN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 84 and 88.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-36.

PART C
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Georgia On A Fast Train?

127 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 Georgia On A Fast Train hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Georgia On A Fast Train?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 76, 84 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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