Long Drives (Drum Tab) · BoyWithUke

70 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-12 and 30-37, and 1 more place -- 58.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LONG DRIVES (DRUM TAB) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-70.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesACS5S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Drives (Drum Tab)?

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 Long Drives (Drum Tab) hard to play on drums?

34 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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