Espada · Clayton King, Spiro

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 34 and 51, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
ESPADA · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 67, 89, 90 and 3 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 20 sections: 77 keep time, 9 are fills, 26 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-102.

PART B
PART P
BREAK
PART U
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART AG
PART AH
PART S18
OUTRO
19 groovesOS18RAGB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Espada?

122 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Espada hard to play on drums?

61 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Espada?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 67, 89, 90 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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