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EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART P
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIGBPAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watcher In The Sky on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-23, hi-hat through bars 24-61, toms through bars 62-63, hi-hat through bars 64-95 and ride through bars 96-104, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 44-49, and 6 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    44                                               45
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|---------------------------------------x--------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------------------|o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----x-x-x----x--------|
Watcher In The Sky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watcher In The Sky?

118 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 Watcher In The Sky hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Watcher In The Sky?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED