Take A Little Ride · Jason Aldean

130 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 27-32 and 34-39, and 7 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TAKE A LITTLE RIDE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 42, 50, 66 and 10 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 76 keep time, 16 are fills, 25 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBDEGZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take A Little Ride?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Take A Little Ride hard to play on drums?

42 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Take A Little Ride?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 42, 50, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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