Arco Arena · Cake

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 9 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
ARCO ARENA · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 58.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 57-58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 2 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-56.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arco Arena?

85 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 Arco Arena hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Arco Arena?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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