Always Watching You · Escuela Grind

91 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 79-81, and 1 more place -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ALWAYS WATCHING YOU · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 36, 37 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 12 sections: 42 keep time, 19 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART S
PART Y
PART E
PART AC
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHEMCAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Watching You?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Always Watching You hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Always Watching You?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 36, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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