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Road To Hell · Chris Rea

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 20 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Road To Hell on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-102 and ride through bars 103-152.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Road To Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED