Nantucket Sleighride · Mountain

111 bars, 6:00, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-50, 52-56 and 77-80 -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
NANTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 31 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 33-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 37 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-58.

PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPAECALA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nantucket Sleighride?

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

Is Nantucket Sleighride hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Nantucket Sleighride?

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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