The Thunder Rolls · Garth Brooks

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 29 and 43-50, and 1 more place -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
THE THUNDER ROLLS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 30, 31, 53, 54, 55 and 2 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 53-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 70-71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 5 sections: 56 keep time and 8 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-18.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Thunder Rolls?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thunder Rolls hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Thunder Rolls?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 30, 31, 53, 54, 55 and 2 more.

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