The Road To Ubar · Alchemist

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-72 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE ROAD TO UBAR · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 40, 82, 84 and 4 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-71.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesBHJES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Road To Ubar?

95 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 To Ubar hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 To Ubar?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 40, 82, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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