The Patient · Tool

151 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 7:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60, 62 and 64, and 5 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE PATIENT · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 23 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 52-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 15 sections: 52 keep time, 29 are fills, 2 are stops and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-40.

COUNT-IN
PART I
PART V
PART S8
CHORUS
PART AS
CHORUS 2
PART S13
BREAK 3
14 groovesS15AMIS13S1+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Patient?

110 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Patient hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 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 Patient?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56 and 23 more.

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