Another Quest · Hespera

112 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ANOTHER QUEST · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 18, 26, 31, 33, 34 and 26 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 32 are fills, 3 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

PART B
PART D
PART F
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesS8BFNL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Another Quest?

145 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 Another Quest hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 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 Another Quest?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 18, 26, 31, 33, 34 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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