The Door · Neal Morse

943 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 44:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
943
LENGTH
44:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 4% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 63 and 65, and 24 more places -- 4.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THE DOOR · BAR 63
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

76 fills to learn, played 204 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 198 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

72 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

943 bars across 94 sections: 382 keep time, 205 are fills, 132 are stops and 126 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-112.

OUTRO 2
64 groovesS94BS91ABER+59Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Door?

90 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 The Door hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

943 bars, about 44:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 313 exercises over 84 sittings, about 27 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 The Door?

76 fills to learn, played 204 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 198 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 943 BARS ANALYSED
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