Rosetta Stoned · Tool

324 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 113 BPM, 11:03 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
324
LENGTH
11:03
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 211-212, 216-217 and 221-222, and 8 more places -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
ROSETTA STONED · BARS 211-212
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 15, 26, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 47 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

324 bars across 29 sections: 215 keep time, 53 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 210-245.

CHORUS 2
PART CZ
PART DK
PART DW
PART DC
25 groovesBMDKCZDCDW+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rosetta Stoned?

113 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Rosetta Stoned hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

324 bars, about 11:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 121 exercises over 43 sittings, about 26 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 Rosetta Stoned?

20 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 15, 26, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 324 BARS ANALYSED
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