À Francesa · Marina Lima

121 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-56, 58-100 and 102-104, and 1 more place -- 95.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
À FRANCESA · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 121
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars: 120 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-120.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is À Francesa?

116 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 À Francesa 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 À Francesa?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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