Color of carnelian · Since My Beloved

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-44, 46 and 48, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
COLOR OF CARNELIAN · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 52, 56 and 15 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 14 sections: 75 keep time, 21 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-50.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
PART M
PART P
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesYMAPPZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Color of carnelian?

90 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 Color of carnelian hard to play on drums?

70 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?

128 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Color of carnelian?

18 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 52, 56 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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