Mainstreet · Bob Seger

63 bars, 3:34, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 18-21 and 34-37, and 1 more place -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
MAINSTREET · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 63.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 62-63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 11 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-61.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mainstreet?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Mainstreet hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 Mainstreet?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 62 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Bob Seger drum parts

EVERY BOB SEGER CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →