A World Beyond Reach · Crownshift

120 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62, 96-97 and 102, and 3 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
A WORLD BEYOND REACH · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 33 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 64 keep time, 40 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-86.

PART B
PART F
PART L
PART R
PART B
PART R
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesABBACFR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A World Beyond Reach?

116 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 A World Beyond Reach 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 A World Beyond Reach?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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