Speedway · Morrissey

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-16, and 5 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SPEEDWAY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 48, 72, 79, 83 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 5 sections: 96 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-47.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Speedway?

120 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 Speedway hard to play on drums?

40 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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 Speedway?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 48, 72, 79, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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