I know you rider · Mountain Bus

180 bars, 9:39, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
9:39
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-24 and 26-27, and 18 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
I KNOW YOU RIDER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 40, 41, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 24 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 88-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 132-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 15 sections: 117 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-131.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART AM
12 groovesDAAAMOS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I know you rider?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I know you rider hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 9:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 I know you rider?

9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 40, 41, 78, 79, 80, 81 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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