Over The Hills And Far Away · Gary Moore

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 22-24 and 47-49 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 9 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 10 sections: 30 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS10CHAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over The Hills And Far Away?

94 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Over The Hills And Far Away hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Over The Hills And Far Away?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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