The Tale of the Altered Beast · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

746 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 36:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
746
LENGTH
36:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 361-366, 368-374 and 376-382, and 4 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 101 BPM
THE TALE OF THE ALTERED BEAST · BAR 464
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 45, 64, 77, 78, 91, 92 and 30 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 91-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

746 bars across 58 sections: 431 keep time, 36 are fills, 2 are stops and 209 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 463-501.

PART AK
OUTRO 2
28 groovesS58AKKFV+23Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Tale of the Altered Beast?

101 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 Tale of the Altered Beast hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

746 bars, about 36:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 133 exercises over 34 sittings, about 26 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 Tale of the Altered Beast?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 45, 64, 77, 78, 91, 92 and 30 more.

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