Fellows of the Hammer · Wind Rose

155 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-34, 39-41 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FELLOWS OF THE HAMMER · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 30 and 24 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 19 sections: 89 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-29.

PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART S
BREAK
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNSLFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fellows of the Hammer?

115 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 Fellows of the Hammer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Fellows of the Hammer?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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