On The Red River · Turnpike Troubadours

104 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 4:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
ON THE RED RIVER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART I
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS8CBHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Red River?

144 BPM, in 6/4, 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 On The Red River hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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