Watching The Skies · Forgetting The Memories

143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 119, 121 and 123, and 4 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
WATCHING THE SKIES · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 26, 33 and 15 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 17 sections: 84 keep time, 21 are fills, 17 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-55.

CHORUS 2
PART L
PART U
PART G
PART AR
PART AT
OUTRO
16 groovesAAZARUL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watching The Skies?

103 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 Watching The Skies hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Watching The Skies?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 10, 16, 18, 26, 33 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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