The Touch · Stan Bush

124 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 22-26 and 28-29, and 8 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 126 BPM
THE TOUCH · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 25 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-94.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
VERSE
PART N
CHORUS 4
VERSE 2
6 groovesHDENA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Touch?

126 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 Touch hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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 Touch?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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