シャルル (Charles) · Ado

140 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-35, 38 and 42-43, and 7 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
シャルル (CHARLES) · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 52 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 18 sections: 59 keep time, 58 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 124-127.

PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AM
OUTRO 2
11 groovesPFMIAM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is シャルル (Charles)?

148 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 シャルル (Charles) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 シャルル (Charles)?

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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