The Rope · Wunderhorse

97 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 26 and 29-35, and 1 more place -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
THE ROPE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 6 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-50.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLBJG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Rope?

132 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 Rope hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Rope?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 51, 52, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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