A Tale That Wasn't Right · Helloween

60 bars, 3:56, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 32, and 5 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 61 BPM
A TALE THAT WASN'T RIGHT · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29 and 33.

LOOP · 61 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-60.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHBJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Tale That Wasn't Right?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Tale That Wasn't Right hard to play on drums?

38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Tale That Wasn't Right?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29 and 33.

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