The King Under the Mountain · Wind Rose

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44 and 99-105 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
THE KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 5-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 20 sections: 58 keep time, 40 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-44.

PART S2
PART G
PART M
PART O
CHORUS
PART T
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART O
15 groovesPOMXG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The King Under the Mountain?

95 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 King Under the Mountain hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The King Under the Mountain?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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