Father Time · Stratovarius

195 bars, 10:21, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
10:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-66 and 95-101, and 7 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
FATHER TIME · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 51, 52, 60, 67 and 15 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 22 sections: 144 keep time, 21 are fills, 5 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-50.

PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
12 groovesOJEBS11+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Father Time?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Father Time hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 10:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Father Time?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 51, 52, 60, 67 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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