"Solitary Road" · Charley Crockett

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-12 and 14-20, and 8 more places -- 77.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
"SOLITARY ROAD" · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 2 sections: 81 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-77.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Solitary Road"?

94 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 "Solitary Road" hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in "Solitary Road"?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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