Heading for the Door · Duster

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
HEADING FOR THE DOOR · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 59
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 2 sections: 57 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heading for the Door?

92 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 Heading for the Door hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Heading for the Door?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 59.

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