Franklin's Tower · Grateful Dead

189 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:31 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
6:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-21, 23-27 and 62-64, and 4 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
FRANKLIN'S TOWER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 27 sections: 148 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-82.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AZ
22 groovesEAENAZAL+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Franklin's Tower?

116 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 Franklin's Tower hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 6:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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