All Along The Watchtower · U2

15 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
15
LENGTH
0:30
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6 and 8-15 -- 93.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars: 14 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Along The Watchtower?

120 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?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

15 bars, about 0:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in All Along The Watchtower?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 7.

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