Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No. 4 · Classical Metal

83 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CHOPIN, ETUDE OP. 10 NO. 4 · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 25 and 18 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 39 keep time, 25 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBS3S9S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No. 4?

160 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 Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No. 4 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Chopin, Etude Op. 10 No. 4?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 9, 12, 25 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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