Entertain Me · Tigran Hamasyan

104 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Jazz / BluesProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 81% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-50, 53-54 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
ENTERTAIN ME · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 5 sections: 10 keep time, 1 is a fill, 82 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-103.

CHORUS
PART C
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS3EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Entertain Me?

134 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 Entertain Me hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Entertain Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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