Tower '99 · Dave Weckl Band

172 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 7:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 3% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-79 -- 2.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TOWER '99 · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 42 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 18 sections: 91 keep time, 48 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-16.

PART K
PART Y
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART CT
OUTRO 2
17 groovesBOKDJYCT+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tower '99?

87 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 Tower '99 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 26 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 Tower '99?

13 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 7, 17, 21, 25, 37 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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