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The Tower · Avantasia

EXERCISE 12 OF 76
Join Part C to Part B (bars 11-13)
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PART C
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Tower on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
328
LENGTH
13:07
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-90 and toms through bars 91-92, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Tower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-78 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-111 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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