Long Road To Ruin · Foo Fighters

133 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-23, 33-35 and 37, and 18 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
LONG ROAD TO RUIN · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 38, 40, 60 and 12 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 18 are fills, 9 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-75.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART S7
OUTRO
6 groovesBDS1S7L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Road To Ruin?

147 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 Road To Ruin hard to play on drums?

50 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Long Road To Ruin?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 38, 40, 60 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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