Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) · John Powell

67 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7-8, and 18 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
TEST DRIVE (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-38.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBECS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon)?

110 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 Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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