花の塔 / Tower of Flower · Sayuri (さユり)

192 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-34, 36-41 and 52-56, and 6 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
花の塔 / TOWER OF FLOWER · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 57 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 20 sections: 100 keep time, 64 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-41.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART BD
CHORUS 5
11 groovesSCWAFBD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 花の塔 / Tower of Flower?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 花の塔 / Tower of Flower hard to play on drums?

64 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 花の塔 / Tower of Flower?

22 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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