Garden In The Bones · Periphery

206 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 6-7 and 10, and 11 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
GARDEN IN THE BONES · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 85 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 91 are fills, 10 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-105.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AF
PART S7
PART AK
OUTRO
8 groovesDBAKAFS7+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Garden In The Bones?

135 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 Garden In The Bones hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Garden In The Bones?

22 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 13, 15, 17 and 85 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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