To Her Door · Paul Kelly

70 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36 -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TO HER DOOR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 56, 62 and 70.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Her Door?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is To Her Door hard to play on drums?

53 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To Her Door?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 56, 62 and 70.

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