Ten Thousand Feet · I See Stars

197 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 17 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TEN THOUSAND FEET · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 56, 133, 134 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 133-137 · LANDS ON BAR 138 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 18 sections: 122 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-95.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S12
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBIOS12L+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ten Thousand Feet?

140 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 Ten Thousand Feet hard to play on drums?

63 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ten Thousand Feet?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 46, 48, 56, 133, 134 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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