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Telegraph Road · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 28 OF 86
Run P1 · Part P (bars 60-71)
216 / 377 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART P
OUTRO 2
25 groovesATAJYHW+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 31
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 6
JOIN · 21
LINK · 7
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Telegraph Road on drums

377 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 17:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
17:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, silence through bars 22-32, hi-hat through bars 33-113, kick and crashes through bars 114-121 and hi-hat through bars 122-143, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 241-242, 244-246 and 248-250, and 31 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    241
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-------x-----x-|
Telegraph Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 136, 137, 240, 264, 268, 276 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 83 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AT, AU -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S4 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-67 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Telegraph Road?

84 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 Telegraph Road hard to play on drums?

50 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 17:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 83 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Telegraph Road?

2 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 136, 137, 240, 264, 268, 276 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 377 BARS ANALYSED