All Along The Watchtower · Bob Dylan

79 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-15 and 18-23, and 7 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-78.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Along The Watchtower?

129 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 All Along The Watchtower hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 All Along The Watchtower?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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