Take Me Home, Country Roads · Neebs Gaming

143 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 59-65, and 6 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROADS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 13 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 7 sections: 91 keep time, 19 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-120.

PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGCQJNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Me Home, Country Roads?

175 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 Me Home, Country Roads hard to play on drums?

55 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Take Me Home, Country Roads?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 2, 10, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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