No Particular Place To Go · Chuck Berry

86 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 24 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
NO PARTICULAR PLACE TO GO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 86.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-85.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Particular Place To Go?

132 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 No Particular Place To Go hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 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 No Particular Place To Go?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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