Surf Rider · The Lively Ones

115 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26, and 12 more places -- 65.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
SURF RIDER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 96, 97 and 105.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 6 sections: 105 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-41.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surf Rider?

139 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 Surf Rider hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Surf Rider?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 96, 97 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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