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The Road I'm On · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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0 / 27 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Road I'm On on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, snare through bars 53-60, silence through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-76 and snare through bars 77-85.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
The Road I'm On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-37 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-60 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-85 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED