Black Butterfly · Essentially Ellington 2021

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48 and 57-60 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BLACK BUTTERFLY · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-24.

CHORUS
PART G
PART H
PART K
PART L
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKLHG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Butterfly?

96 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 Black Butterfly hard to play on drums?

29 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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