Gypsy Road · Cinderella

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 37-51, and 4 more places -- 65.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GYPSY ROAD · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 60, 64, 71 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 94 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-117.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBMKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gypsy Road?

140 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 Gypsy Road 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Gypsy Road?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 60, 64, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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