The Path · Lorde

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 19, and 10 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE PATH · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBFS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Path?

92 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 Path hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Path?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

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