the tower · archive: something

139 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 189 BPM
THE TOWER · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 44 more.

LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 42 keep time, 50 are fills, 26 are stops and 16 are silent.

PART A
PART D
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS
PART S7
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRS7IAKS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the tower?

189 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 tower hard to play on drums?

58 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 tower?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 44 more.

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