Invincible (Drop A) · Tool

219 bars, 10:36, at 72 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.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
10:36
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 9-10 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
INVINCIBLE (DROP A) · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 17 sections: 197 keep time, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-36.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART BM
BREAK
PART CE
PART CG
PART CB
15 groovesBCBS11CGBM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Invincible (Drop A)?

72 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 Invincible (Drop A) hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 10:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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.

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