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Tower '99 · Dave Weckl Band

Tower '99 · Dave Weckl Band
EXERCISE 19 OF 86
Groove U -- Part U
53 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART K
PART U
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tower '99 on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, ride through bars 20-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-28, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    75
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Tower '99 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- BE, CT -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- DJ -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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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