To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth · Entombed

92 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 10 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
TO RIDE, SHOOT STRAIGHT AND SPEAK THE TRUTH · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 21, 24, 30 and 33 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 39 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-81.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth?

111 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 To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth?

5 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 21, 24, 30 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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