The Fountain · Pendulum

209 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 67 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
THE FOUNTAIN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 8 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 9 sections: 162 keep time, 14 are fills, 4 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS 2
7 groovesFBS5S9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fountain?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Fountain hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Fountain?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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