Butterfly · AA Le Composer

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-47 -- 21.2% 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
BUTTERFLY · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 95-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 16 sections: 66 keep time, 17 are fills, 17 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-47.

PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART S9
PART S
PART AF
PART S14
OUTRO
15 groovesNSS9API+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Butterfly?

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 Butterfly hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Butterfly?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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