The Road I'm On · 3 Doors Down

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 37-43 and 45, and 10 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE ROAD I'M ON · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 20, 27, 36, 44, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-10.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Road I'm On?

87 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 Road I'm On hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 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 Road I'm On?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 20, 27, 36, 44, 46 and 9 more.

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