well, well, well, how the turntables · Foxtails

251 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 7:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 124-126, 128-129 and 132, and 14 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
WELL, WELL, WELL, HOW THE TURNTABLES · BAR 203
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 64, 113, 123, 127, 131, 133 and 32 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 123 · LANDS ON BAR 124
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 127 · LANDS ON BAR 128 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 19 sections: 125 keep time, 38 are fills, 36 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-63.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AE
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesIGSS19BA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is well, well, well, how the turntables?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is well, well, well, how the turntables hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 well, well, well, how the turntables?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 64, 113, 123, 127, 131, 133 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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