Winter Morning Tower · Grima

313 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 9:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
313
LENGTH
9:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 41 and 43-45, and 25 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 127 BPM
WINTER MORNING TOWER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 24, 40, 42, 48, 50, 54 and 39 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

313 bars across 19 sections: 125 keep time, 45 are fills, 38 are stops and 88 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART U
PART AI
CHORUS 3
13 groovesBS8DAIU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Winter Morning Tower?

127 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 Winter Morning Tower hard to play on drums?

63 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

313 bars, about 9:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Winter Morning Tower?

25 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 24, 40, 42, 48, 50, 54 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 313 BARS ANALYSED
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