Pneuma - Adam Jones with backing · Tool

298 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 11:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
298
LENGTH
11:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 148-149, 151-152 and 154-155, and 2 more places -- 4.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
PNEUMA - ADAM JONES WITH BACKING · BARS 148-149
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 74, 75, 83 and 35 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 85-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

298 bars across 27 sections: 154 keep time, 41 are fills, 6 are stops and 64 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-25.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART CL
PART DO
BREAK 2
23 groovesS27AQADCLD+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pneuma - Adam Jones with backing?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pneuma - Adam Jones with backing hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

298 bars, about 11:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 32 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in Pneuma - Adam Jones with backing?

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 74, 75, 83 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 298 BARS ANALYSED
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