Watcher Of The Skies · Genesis

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 6:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
6:16
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-27 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
WATCHER OF THE SKIES · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 18 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 28-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 42 keep time, 24 are fills and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-61.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS10GWMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watcher Of The Skies?

116 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Watcher Of The Skies hard to play on drums?

59 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 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 6:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Watcher Of The Skies?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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