Send Me On My Way · Rusted Root

130 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-40 and 116-123 -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
SEND ME ON MY WAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 65, 74, 78 and 5 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 106 keep time, 11 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-40.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
PART D
PART K
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHDFK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Send Me On My Way?

118 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 Send Me On My Way hard to play on drums?

58 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?

130 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Send Me On My Way?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 49, 57, 65, 74, 78 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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