Where Do You Think You're Going? · Dire Straits

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-58, 62-64 and 66, and 6 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 76 BPM
WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING? · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 13 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 6 sections: 53 keep time, 19 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

CHORUS
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAXWTS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Do You Think You're Going??

76 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 Where Do You Think You're Going? hard to play on drums?

46 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 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 Where Do You Think You're Going??

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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