Ride · Lana Del Rey

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
RIDE · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 52.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 2 are fills, 8 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-84.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride?

95 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 Ride hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ride?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 52.

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