Truckin' (Drums) · Grateful Dead

161 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TRUCKIN' (DRUMS) · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 136 · LANDS ON BAR 137
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 144 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-55.

PART C
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFECDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Truckin' (Drums)?

120 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 Truckin' (Drums) hard to play on drums?

39 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Truckin' (Drums)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

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