Riders On The Storm · The Doors

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-22, 25-26 and 29-34, and 19 more places -- 66.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
RIDERS ON THE STORM · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 28, 39, 40, 74, 80 and 1 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 6 sections: 149 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-167.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riders On The Storm?

104 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 Riders On The Storm hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Riders On The Storm?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 28, 39, 40, 74, 80 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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