Like A Stone · Audioslave

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-39, and 8 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
LIKE A STONE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 110.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 109-110 · LANDS ON BAR 111 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 5 sections: 114 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-77.

CHORUS
PART C
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like A Stone?

108 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 Like A Stone hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Like A Stone?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 109 and 110.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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