小步舞曲 · 陳綺貞 Cheer Chen

81 bars, 4:21, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 34-35 and 38-39, and 7 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
小步舞曲 · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 小步舞曲?

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

Is 小步舞曲 hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 小步舞曲?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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