Enlightenment · Patchwork

126 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 11 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
ENLIGHTENMENT · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 24, 29 and 18 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 10 sections: 76 keep time, 26 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-89.

PART C
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
PART AE
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJLZAKF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enlightenment?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Enlightenment hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Enlightenment?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 22, 24, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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