By-Tor and the Snow Dog (2) · Rush

374 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
374
LENGTH
8:16
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 19-20 and 54, and 10 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG (2) · BAR 15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 29, 40, 41 and 39 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

374 bars across 30 sections: 193 keep time, 45 are fills, 22 are stops and 87 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

BREAK
CHORUS
21 groovesS22BRFCB+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By-Tor and the Snow Dog (2)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is By-Tor and the Snow Dog (2) hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

374 bars, about 8:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 106 exercises over 30 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in By-Tor and the Snow Dog (2)?

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 29, 40, 41 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 374 BARS ANALYSED
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