The Saint Beyond The River · Fellowship

162 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 42-46 and 66-71, and 7 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE SAINT BEYOND THE RIVER · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 41 and 24 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 69 keep time, 30 are fills, 31 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-134.

PART S2
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLES7S2AA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Saint Beyond The River?

160 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 Saint Beyond The River hard to play on drums?

60 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Saint Beyond The River?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 32, 40, 41 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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