Edgar · Jean Leloup

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16-40, and 16 more places -- 63.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
EDGAR · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 43, 71, 75 and 87.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 3 sections: 70 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-40.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS1GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edgar?

90 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 Edgar hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Edgar?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 41, 43, 71, 75 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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