The Cowboy Rides Away · George Strait

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 21-23 and 25-39, and 4 more places -- 84.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 3 sections: 86 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-88.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Cowboy Rides Away?

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 The Cowboy Rides Away hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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