Dionysus · president

12 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DIONYSUS · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 6, 11 and 12.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 11-12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars across 3 sections: 3 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent.

CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
3 groovesAS2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dionysus?

140 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 Dionysus hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 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 Dionysus?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 6, 11 and 12.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 12 BARS ANALYSED
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