Sands of Tide · Heaven Pierce Her

144 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-72 and 129-144 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SANDS OF TIDE · BARS 57-58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 104 keep time and 26 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-144.

CHORUS
PART S
PART V
PART S
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesASAAVPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sands of Tide?

150 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 Sands of Tide hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sands of Tide?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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