Elegance of Irony · Groza

278 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 7:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
7:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-104, 158-164 and 166-172, and 4 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
ELEGANCE OF IRONY · BAR 90
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 41, 49 and 37 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 17 sections: 190 keep time, 44 are fills, 19 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 231-254.

PART B
PART D
PART B
PART S
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAANSBG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elegance of Irony?

146 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 Elegance of Irony hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Elegance of Irony?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 41, 49 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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