Balatro · LouisF

22 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 1:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
7/4
BARS
22
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-12 -- 76.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BALATRO · BARS 3-4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

22 bars across 2 sections: 12 keep time, 1 is a fill and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Balatro?

105 BPM, in 7/4, 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 Balatro hard to play on drums?

42 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

22 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Balatro?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 2.

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