Travelling Without Moving · Jamiroquai

104 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 81-87, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
TRAVELLING WITHOUT MOVING · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 56 and 4 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 82 keep time, 10 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesDIBAS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Travelling Without Moving?

126 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 Travelling Without Moving hard to play on drums?

63 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Travelling Without Moving?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 48, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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