Azizam · Ed Sheeran

91 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 22-31 and 36-51, and 4 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 129 BPM
AZIZAM · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 67, 75 and 83.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time, 4 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Azizam?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Azizam hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 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 Azizam?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 67, 75 and 83.

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