Evergreen · Omar Apollo

41 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 3:00 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-16 and 19-27 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
EVERGREEN · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 2 sections: 28 keep time and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-28.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Evergreen?

82 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Evergreen hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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