The Wind That Shapes the Land · Unleash The Archers, Andrew Saunders, Brittney Hayes, Scott Buchanan, Grant Truesdell

295 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
295
LENGTH
8:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 43-45 and 79-93, and 3 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
THE WIND THAT SHAPES THE LAND · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 38, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 25 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 102-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

295 bars across 26 sections: 209 keep time, 31 are fills, 15 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 247-277.

PART D
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesOAFDUR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wind That Shapes the Land?

140 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 Wind That Shapes the Land hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

295 bars, about 8:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 21 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 Wind That Shapes the Land?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 38, 102, 103, 104, 105 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 295 BARS ANALYSED
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