Heavy Horses · Jethro Tull

270 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 64-73 and 176-179, and 5 more places -- 16.7% 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
HEAVY HORSES · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 44 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

270 bars across 25 sections: 102 keep time, 50 are fills, 12 are stops and 84 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-73.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
VERSE
PART AO
CHORUS 3
PART BY
PART S19
19 groovesNS4S6S19AN+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Horses?

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 Heavy Horses hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heavy Horses?

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED
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