Pillars Of Sand · Vektor

229 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-38, 41-43 and 50, and 8 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 · 120 BPM
PILLARS OF SAND · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 89 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

229 bars across 18 sections: 90 keep time, 95 are fills, 3 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-32.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AE
PART BS
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSZAES18BS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pillars Of Sand?

120 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 Pillars Of Sand hard to play on drums?

62 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 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Pillars Of Sand?

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED
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