Hit The Road Jack · Ray Charles

66 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-66 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 173 BPM
HIT THE ROAD JACK · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars: 66 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-66.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hit The Road Jack?

173 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 Hit The Road Jack hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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