Espresso Macchiato (Original) · Tommy Cash

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 76-77 and 79-85 -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ESPRESSO MACCHIATO (ORIGINAL) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 15 sections: 54 keep time and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-40.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART S7
PART H
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesFBS1JS2+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Espresso Macchiato (Original)?

120 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 Espresso Macchiato (Original) hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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