Tow Rope Around The Throat · 200 Stab Wounds

130 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 139 BPM
TOW ROPE AROUND THE THROAT · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 35, 43, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 17 sections: 80 keep time, 15 are fills, 8 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-58.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
PART G
PART AH
BREAK 2
OUTRO
14 groovesDMAPGS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tow Rope Around The Throat?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tow Rope Around The Throat hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tow Rope Around The Throat?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 35, 43, 72, 79, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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