King's Highway · Kenny Wayne Shepherd

32 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:17 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
1:17
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-32 -- 96.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
KING'S HIGHWAY · BAR 7
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 2 sections: 28 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-32.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is King's Highway?

100 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 King's Highway hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 1:17 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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