Inca Roads · Frank Zappa

155 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68, 70 and 72, and 10 more places -- 12.2% 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
INCA ROADS · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 45, 93, 94 and 14 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 19 sections: 91 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-124.

PART D
BREAK
PART K
BREAK 2
PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
14 groovesAFVKS8D+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inca Roads?

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 Inca Roads hard to play on drums?

56 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?

155 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Inca Roads?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 45, 93, 94 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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