A Bird's Last Look · Macabre Plaza

31 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 1:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
31
LENGTH
1:05
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-30 -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
A BIRD'S LAST LOOK · BAR 20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 31.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 31
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

31 bars across 4 sections: 19 keep time, 2 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-30.

BREAK
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFS2BAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bird's Last Look?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 A Bird's Last Look hard to play on drums?

46 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

31 bars, about 1:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Bird's Last Look?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 31.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 31 BARS ANALYSED
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