Étude No. 5 (Bm) · ヴラード

38 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 1:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
38
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6 and 29-30 -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
ÉTUDE NO. 5 (BM) · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 9 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 3 sections: 21 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-35.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Étude No. 5 (Bm)?

116 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 Étude No. 5 (Bm) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

38 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Étude No. 5 (Bm)?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 38 BARS ANALYSED
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