Ride Like Lightning · Nextime

72 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 26 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
RIDE LIKE LIGHTNING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 14 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride Like Lightning?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ride Like Lightning hard to play on drums?

41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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