Buttercups · Moths Of

26 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 0:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
26
LENGTH
0:45
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13 and 15-17 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BUTTERCUPS · BARS 11-12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 3 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

26 bars across 5 sections: 11 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent.

BREAK
PART S2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFIDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buttercups?

138 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 Buttercups hard to play on drums?

57 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

26 bars, about 0:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Buttercups?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 26 BARS ANALYSED
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