Red Dirt Road · Brooks And Dunn

142 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 29 and 31, and 24 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
RED DIRT ROAD · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 43, 48, 56 and 18 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 24 are fills, 10 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-23.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHJDS1AD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Dirt Road?

136 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 Red Dirt Road hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Red Dirt Road?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 43, 48, 56 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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