Towards A Twilight · Night In Gales

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 66-72, and 2 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TOWARDS A TWILIGHT · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 36 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 16 sections: 77 keep time, 42 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-33.

PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
12 groovesHPJWF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Towards A Twilight?

100 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 Towards A Twilight hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Towards A Twilight?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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