Classical Dragon · Marcin, Tim Henson

78 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 117 BPM
CLASSICAL DRAGON · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 11 sections: 47 keep time and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-78.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART S7
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesHBS7LS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Classical Dragon?

117 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 Classical Dragon hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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