All Along The Watchtower · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 109 BPM
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 24 and 16 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time and 22 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFMRWEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Along The Watchtower?

109 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?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 All Along The Watchtower?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 24 and 16 more.

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