Elephant · Bôa

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
ELEPHANT · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 7 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOEKDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elephant?

87 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 Elephant hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Elephant?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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