The Old Man Down The Road · John Fogerty

118 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-30, and 10 more places -- 87.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 137 BPM
THE OLD MAN DOWN THE ROAD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 31, 49, 57, 65 and 7 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 2 sections: 101 keep time, 13 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-48.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Old Man Down The Road?

137 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 Old Man Down The 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Old Man Down The Road?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 13, 21, 31, 49, 57, 65 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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