By-Tor And The Snow Dog · Rush

178 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-79, 85-87 and 97-98, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 58 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 13 sections: 87 keep time, 64 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-95.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AC
PART AB
PART AI
PART AQ
11 groovesCAQABBAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By-Tor And The Snow Dog?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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 hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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?

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Rush drum parts

EVERY RUSH CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →