Mountain At My Gates · Foals

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-33, 42-49 and 51-53 -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
MOUNTAIN AT MY GATES · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 41 and 61.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEKFBM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mountain At My Gates?

104 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 Mountain At My Gates hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Mountain At My Gates?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 41 and 61.

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