The Eldritch · Watchtower

95 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 48 and 87-90 -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE ELDRITCH · BARS 87-88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 42 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 15-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 21-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 32 keep time, 48 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART AD
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART BJ
OUTRO
9 groovesIAAJUAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Eldritch?

132 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 Eldritch hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

95 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eldritch?

16 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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