Distant Early Warning · Rush

179 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 14 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
DISTANT EARLY WARNING · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 46, 48, 50, 66 and 17 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 15 sections: 121 keep time, 23 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-41.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AI
PART AU
PART AX
13 groovesCOAXAAAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Distant Early Warning?

144 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 Distant Early Warning hard to play on drums?

56 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Distant Early Warning?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 46, 48, 50, 66 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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