Last Train to London · Rikas

91 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
LAST TRAIN TO LONDON · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 50, 64, 66, 90 and 91.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 90-91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 2 sections: 83 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-33.

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

Questions

What BPM is Last Train to London?

122 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 Last Train to London hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Last Train to London?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 50, 64, 66, 90 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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