Sound Of The Bell (With Bass) · ORBIT CULTURE

240 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 25 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOUND OF THE BELL (WITH BASS) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 64, 68, 72, 80, 82 and 15 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 24 sections: 145 keep time, 21 are fills, 17 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-129.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 3
PART AA
PART AA
13 groovesCDS15AAAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sound Of The Bell (With Bass)?

120 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 Sound Of The Bell (With Bass) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sound Of The Bell (With Bass)?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 64, 68, 72, 80, 82 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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