The Wanderer's Guild · Armor For Sleep

169 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 33-39, and 26 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 167 BPM
THE WANDERER'S GUILD · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 88, 96, 120, 128 and 3 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 9 are fills, 46 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S11
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBHS11S6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wanderer's Guild?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Wanderer's Guild hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wanderer's Guild?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 48, 88, 96, 120, 128 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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