Ballade · Promised Judgment

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 73-75, and 7 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BALLADE · BARS 45-46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 112.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 11 sections: 126 keep time, 2 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-91.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFEACL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ballade?

120 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 Ballade hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Ballade?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 56 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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