Time Stand Still · Rush

167 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-38, 79-86 and 127-134 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
TIME STAND STILL · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 76, 78, 88 and 18 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 15 sections: 105 keep time, 24 are fills, 12 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-38.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesLQBGT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Stand Still?

138 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 Time Stand Still hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Time Stand Still?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 76, 78, 88 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED
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