A Terre · Visible Confusion

156 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26-27, and 9 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
A TERRE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 50, 52, 88 and 11 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 13 sections: 92 keep time, 17 are fills, 32 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-80.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesHS12RBQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Terre?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Terre hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Terre?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 36, 40, 50, 52, 88 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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