Road To Hell · Chris Rea

152 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-9 and 11-17, and 16 more places -- 55.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ROAD TO HELL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 42, 50, 58 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 2 sections: 138 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-152.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Road To Hell?

135 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 Road To Hell hard to play on drums?

48 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Road To Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 18, 26, 42, 50, 58 and 7 more.

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