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Road to Nowhere · Talking Heads

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove D -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Road to Nowhere on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-xxx-xxxxxxx-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Road to Nowhere -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED