Ethereal Skies. · Obscura

187 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-53, 56-57 and 64-65, and 4 more places -- 7.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
ETHEREAL SKIES. · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 7, 32, 45, 48, 49 and 33 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 48-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 20 sections: 107 keep time, 39 are fills, 15 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-142.

PART Q
PART P
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
PART BZ
CHORUS 4
13 groovesAEBZQPAQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ethereal Skies.?

130 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 Ethereal Skies. hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ethereal Skies.?

23 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 7, 32, 45, 48, 49 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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