A Sombra da Maldade · Cidade Negra

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 37-40 and 57-68, and 1 more place -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 108 BPM
A SOMBRA DA MALDADE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 24 sections: 103 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

PART D
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBDCEF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Sombra da Maldade?

108 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 Sombra da Maldade hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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