Avalon · Roxy Music

143 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 62-86 and 112-116 -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
AVALON · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 15 sections: 126 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-86.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
PART J
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJGDF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Avalon?

135 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 Avalon hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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