Road to Nowhere · Talking Heads

108 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-29, 31-41 and 43-49, and 12 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ROAD TO NOWHERE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 2 sections: 90 keep time, 1 is a fill and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-108.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Road to Nowhere?

110 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?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Road to Nowhere?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 18.

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