Journey · Wheel In The Sky

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 21-23, and 18 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
JOURNEY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 69 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesDPBS1XFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Journey?

104 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 Journey hard to play on drums?

47 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Journey?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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