Roadhouse Blues · The Doors

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-23 and 29-39, and 4 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ROADHOUSE BLUES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 24, 40, 52, 56, 58 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 95 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-105.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECNRS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roadhouse Blues?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Roadhouse Blues hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Roadhouse Blues?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 24, 40, 52, 56, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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