Goin' Out West · Tom Waits

105 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPunk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-46, 81 and 83, and 3 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
GOIN' OUT WEST · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
5 groovesEHS1DFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goin' Out West?

132 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 Goin' Out West hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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