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Horsepower from RoadHouse · Post Malone

EXERCISE 17 OF 33
Groove J
67 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEBFIC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horsepower from RoadHouse on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 29-32 and 37-42, and 3 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Horsepower from RoadHouse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-61 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Horsepower from RoadHouse?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Horsepower from RoadHouse hard to play on drums?

54 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Horsepower from RoadHouse?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED