A.D. · The Butterfly Effect

152 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-32, 73-84 and 124-137 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 152 BPM
A.D. · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 115, 143, 147 and 151.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 147 · LANDS ON BAR 148
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 151 · LANDS ON BAR 152
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 11 sections: 101 keep time, 4 are fills, 14 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-69.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDGKCP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A.D.?

152 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.D. hard to play on drums?

52 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A.D.?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 115, 143, 147 and 151.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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