Where The Road Forgot Your Name · Norexsia

171 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 21 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
WHERE THE ROAD FORGOT YOUR NAME · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 39, 43, 62 and 8 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 15 sections: 125 keep time, 14 are fills, 1 is a stop and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-38.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
9 groovesBNS14KG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where The Road Forgot Your Name?

190 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 Where The Road Forgot Your Name hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Where The Road Forgot Your Name?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 39, 43, 62 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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