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Butterfly · AA Le Composer

EXERCISE 9 OF 46
Join Part A to Break (bars 7-9)
42 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK
PART A
BREAK
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Butterfly on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, silence through bars 49-69, hi-hat through bars 70-90 and silence through bars 91-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x--------x--------x-----------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--x--------x--x--------|
Butterfly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-12 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-47 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-69 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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