A Bird's Tweet · Bernard Gervais Burnz

154 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 13-22, and 7 more places -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
A BIRD'S TWEET · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 19 sections: 106 keep time, 2 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-129.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO
10 groovesDS6S8S10S18+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bird's Tweet?

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

Is A Bird's Tweet hard to play on drums?

57 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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