Watching From A Distance · Warning

232 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 58 BPM, 13:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
13:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 35 and 39-43, and 14 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 58 BPM
WATCHING FROM A DISTANCE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 58 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 16 sections: 78 keep time, 44 are fills and 97 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-98.

PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKNAARE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watching From A Distance?

58 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Watching From A Distance hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 13:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 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 Watching From A Distance?

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

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