Elesi · Rivermaya

172 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 72 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
ELESI · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 107, 139 and 1 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 8 sections: 151 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-38.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elesi?

151 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 Elesi hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Elesi?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 107, 139 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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