Ether · What Lies Below

105 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 46, and 5 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
ETHER · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 50 keep time, 13 are fills, 7 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS
BREAK 3
PART S8
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHS1FS8S7+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ether?

145 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 Ether hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Ether?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 44 and 7 more.

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