Ride Like The Wind · Christopher Cross

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 66-80 and 86-90, and 2 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RIDE LIKE THE WIND · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 126, 127, 128 and 129.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 126-129 · LANDS ON BAR 130 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 19 sections: 114 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-90.

PART F
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDHBFG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride Like The Wind?

120 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 Like The Wind hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ride Like The Wind?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 126, 127, 128 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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