Clock Tower · Castlevania Symphony of the Night

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-28 and 35-37, and 4 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CLOCK TOWER · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 34, 57, 114 and 118.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 17 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-29.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBIRS1K+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Clock Tower?

120 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 Clock Tower hard to play on drums?

63 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Clock Tower?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 34, 57, 114 and 118.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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