Caught in the Balance · Toto

183 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-71, 92-113 and 148-183 -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CAUGHT IN THE BALANCE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 15 sections: 137 keep time, 22 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFEBLS7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caught in the Balance?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Caught in the Balance hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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