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All Along The Watchtower · The Jimi Hendrix Experience

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove M -- Part M
37 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART W, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Along The Watchtower on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49 and ride through bars 50-57, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
All Along The Watchtower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-110 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED