Watch Over You · Alter Bridge

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-59, 61 and 67-72, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WATCH OVER YOU · BARS 53-54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 4 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

CHORUS
PART B
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMBFJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watch Over You?

85 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 Watch Over You 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Watch Over You?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 40, 47, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 4 more.

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