E85 · Don Toliver

76 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
E85 · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 10 sections: 37 keep time, 1 is a fill, 25 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-52.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART S3
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFS2S3S9E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is E85?

132 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 E85 hard to play on drums?

36 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in E85?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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