Road To Something New · NBKA

25 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:43
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 -- 60% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ROAD TO SOMETHING NEW · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 24.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 19 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-19.

PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Road To Something New?

140 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 Something New hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 Something New?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 24.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 25 BARS ANALYSED
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