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Where The Road Forgot Your Name · Norexsia

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G
111 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
OUTRO
9 groovesBNS14KG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where The Road Forgot Your Name on drums

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.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43, snare through bars 44-52, silence through bars 53-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-75, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--x---xx--xx|
Where The Road Forgot Your Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-58 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-68 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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