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The Tower · Boundaries

EXERCISE 23 OF 77
Groove N
114 / 343 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 3, PART P
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART P
PART T
BREAK 5
PART S16
PART AB
22 groovesS15EDTS16+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Tower on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
343
LENGTH
11:11
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, snare through bars 43-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53, snare through bars 54-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-67, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|
The Tower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-68 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 3 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 76-97 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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