Long Train Running · Dooby Brothers

101 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 17-18, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
LONG TRAIN RUNNING · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 27, 37, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-36.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART P
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDICYP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Long Train Running?

117 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 Train Running hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Train Running?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 27, 37, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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