Mountain Climbing · Joe Bonamassa

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 20-24 and 27-29, and 12 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 46, 54 and 13 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 77 keep time, 19 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-80.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART X
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesBCPET+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mountain Climbing?

94 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 Mountain Climbing hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mountain Climbing?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 26, 46, 54 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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