Return Trip · Electric Wizard

299 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 9:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
9:39
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 32 and 36-37, and 42 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
RETURN TRIP · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 50, 56, 62, 68, 110, 118 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

299 bars across 21 sections: 185 keep time, 26 are fills, 32 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-106.

PART B
CHORUS
PART S6
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S11
PART J
10 groovesHJBGS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Return Trip?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Return Trip hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 9:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Return Trip?

18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 50, 56, 62, 68, 110, 118 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 299 BARS ANALYSED
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