beelzebob · Bill Bruford

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:47 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 28-36 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BEELZEBOB · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 33 more.

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 39 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-37.

CHORUS
PART AP
PART AY
PART BB
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesIBBAPS10AY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is beelzebob?

140 BPM, in 6/4, 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 beelzebob hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

9 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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