By-Tor & The Snow Dog (Complete) · Rush

321 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 7:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
321
LENGTH
7:47
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 11, and 17 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BY-TOR & THE SNOW DOG (COMPLETE) · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 48 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

321 bars across 28 sections: 193 keep time, 54 are fills, 9 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-72.

CHORUS
PART W
PART AW
BREAK 2
PART BT
PART BV
22 groovesCS17WALBV+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is By-Tor & The Snow Dog (Complete)?

163 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 & The Snow Dog (Complete) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

321 bars, about 7:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 36 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 & The Snow Dog (Complete)?

31 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 321 BARS ANALYSED
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