d15 · Asphera

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 30 and 50-53, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
D15 · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 9-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 11 sections: 37 keep time, 27 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

PART B
PART S2
PART M
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesXSANBS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is d15?

100 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 d15 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 d15?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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