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Nowhere Road · Steve Earle

Nowhere Road · Steve Earle
EXERCISE 16 OF 22
Run F2 · Outro (bars 38-91)
99 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nowhere Road on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-31, 38-51 and 53-61, and 1 more place -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Nowhere Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 103 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-41 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Nowhere Road?

153 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 Nowhere Road 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nowhere Road?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 103 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED