The Tower · Boundaries

343 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 11:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
11:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 23 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE TOWER · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 28, 97, 105, 113, 121 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 281 · LANDS ON BAR 282
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 321 · LANDS ON BAR 322

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

343 bars across 25 sections: 131 keep time, 9 are fills, 49 are stops and 135 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 124-141.

CHORUS
PART T
BREAK 5
PART S16
PART AB
22 groovesS15EDTS16+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Tower?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

343 bars, about 11:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 28, 97, 105, 113, 121 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 343 BARS ANALYSED
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