Inner Road · Adagio

24 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 0:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
0:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 1 more place -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
INNER ROAD · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 14, 22 and 26.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 2 sections: 15 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inner Road?

130 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 Inner Road hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 0:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Inner Road?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 14, 22 and 26.

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