Ava Adore · Smashing Pumpkins

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-30, 48 and 64-67, and 4 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
AVA ADORE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 61, 71 and 76.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDCGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ava Adore?

82 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 Ava Adore hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ava Adore?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 61, 71 and 76.

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