Acelera · Têmpora

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 35-50 and 97-104 -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ACELERA · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS5GAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Acelera?

120 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 Acelera hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Acelera?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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