Ethel · Russian Circles

76 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 17 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ETHEL · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 5 sections: 43 keep time, 19 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES4S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ethel?

118 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 Ethel hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 · 76 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Russian Circles drum parts

EVERY RUSSIAN CIRCLES CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →