Butterfly · Digimon Japanese Opening Theme

65 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:32
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-18 and 22-26, and 2 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BUTTERFLY · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 5, 13, 45, 53, 54 and 3 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 53-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 7 sections: 36 keep time, 10 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-11.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFMHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Butterfly?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Butterfly 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 9 times: bars 3, 5, 13, 45, 53, 54 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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