The Trees · Rush

159 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
THE TREES · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 44 are fills, 17 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-83.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
PART Z
PART S6
PART AE
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesES1S6OAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Trees?

136 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 Trees hard to play on drums?

48 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Trees?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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