16th Century Greensleeves · Rainbow

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14-16 and 29-34, and 7 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
16TH CENTURY GREENSLEEVES · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 17 and 8 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 47 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-43.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesGDLS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 16th Century Greensleeves?

85 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 16th Century Greensleeves hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 16th Century Greensleeves?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 17 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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