Astilla · Arcana

94 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-36, 38-48 and 50-52, and 3 more places -- 84.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ASTILLA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 37 and 61.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 4 sections: 84 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-36.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astilla?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Astilla hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Astilla?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 37 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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