Token Of Time · Ensiferum

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TOKEN OF TIME · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 28 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 18 sections: 62 keep time, 34 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

PART E
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART K
OUTRO
11 groovesQEAAKN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Token Of Time?

125 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 Token Of Time hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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 Token Of Time?

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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