bernard trigger · cleopatrick

131 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BERNARD TRIGGER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 15, 21, 23 and 10 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 55 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-51.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
BREAK
6 groovesS7BHJZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is bernard trigger?

118 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 bernard trigger hard to play on drums?

45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 bernard trigger?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 15, 21, 23 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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