Hitch A Ride · Boston

114 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78, 82 and 86, and 8 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
HITCH A RIDE · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 41 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 15-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 11 sections: 39 keep time, 47 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-50.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART N
PART S
PART D
PART AD
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGDNSS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hitch A Ride?

116 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 Hitch A Ride hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Hitch A Ride?

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Boston drum parts

EVERY BOSTON CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →