The Puppeteer · Ben Schröder

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 62-64, and 3 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE PUPPETEER · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 35, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 75 keep time, 17 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOKSGD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Puppeteer?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Puppeteer hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Puppeteer?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 31, 35, 53, 61, 65, 69 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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