Take Me To The River Drums · Talking Heads

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-61, 63-66 and 71-97, and 1 more place -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER DRUMS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 70 and 123.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 3 sections: 118 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-61.

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

Questions

What BPM is Take Me To The River Drums?

98 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 Take Me To The River Drums hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Take Me To The River Drums?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 70 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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