The Climb (full band) · Miley Cyrus

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 20-21 and 24-25, and 5 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 76 BPM
THE CLIMB (FULL BAND) · BAR 27
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 26, 30, 33 and 8 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBDES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Climb (full band)?

76 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 The Climb (full band) hard to play on drums?

43 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?

55 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Climb (full band)?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 18, 22, 26, 30, 33 and 8 more.

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