Adagio · Boikot

40 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:36 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
40
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-35 and 37-39 -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ADAGIO · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

40 bars across 5 sections: 32 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-39.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adagio?

100 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 Adagio 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

40 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Adagio?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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