WINDING ROAD · コブクロ 絢香

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 32-33, and 5 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
WINDING ROAD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 25, 29, 30 and 26 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART C
PART K
PART G
PART U
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKCGU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WINDING ROAD?

90 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 WINDING ROAD hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 WINDING ROAD?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 15, 19, 25, 29, 30 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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