In The Wake Of Poseidon · King Crimson

143 bars, 7:50, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 40-42 and 44-46, and 4 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 5, 35, 37, 54, 83 and 11 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 15 sections: 106 keep time, 17 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AB
OUTRO 2
11 groovesMABHKC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Wake Of Poseidon?

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

Is In The Wake Of Poseidon hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 In The Wake Of Poseidon?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 5, 35, 37, 54, 83 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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