Road To Nowhere · Ozzy Osbourne

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-26, 42-46 and 68-70, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ROAD TO NOWHERE · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 27, 29, 33 and 18 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 12 sections: 45 keep time, 24 are fills, 2 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART C
PART S3
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHCSMS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Road To Nowhere?

80 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 Nowhere hard to play on drums?

56 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Nowhere?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 27, 29, 33 and 18 more.

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