All Along the Watchtower · Brewer & Shipley

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-28 and 30-36, and 3 more places -- 82.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 47 and 54.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 2 sections: 45 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-28.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Along the Watchtower?

100 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?

53 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?

55 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 47 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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