Twilight zone · Golden Earring

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-25 and 27-33, and 13 more places -- 79.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TWILIGHT ZONE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 58, 111, 119 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 125-127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 8 sections: 122 keep time, 10 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-57.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEJS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twilight zone?

120 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 Twilight zone hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Twilight zone?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 38, 58, 111, 119 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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