Étude No. 9 (G♯m) · ヴラード

50 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 1:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 23-26 and 47-48 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ÉTUDE NO. 9 (G♯M) · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 22, 30, 40 and 1 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 24 keep time, 8 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-36.

CHORUS
PART I
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIVJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Étude No. 9 (G♯m)?

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 Étude No. 9 (G♯m) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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. 9 (G♯m)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 13, 22, 30, 40 and 1 more.

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