The Tower · Avantasia

328 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 13:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
328
LENGTH
13:07
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-90, 93-94 and 97-98, and 6 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE TOWER · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 12, 37, 38, 74, 91 and 22 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

328 bars across 23 sections: 238 keep time, 28 are fills, 14 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 292-322.

PART B
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S15
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesQVGLB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Tower?

100 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 Tower hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

328 bars, about 13:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Tower?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 11, 12, 37, 38, 74, 91 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 328 BARS ANALYSED
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