feminine adornments · Julie

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 18 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FEMININE ADORNMENTS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 35, 36, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 30 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 49-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 75-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 36 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBTCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is feminine adornments?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is feminine adornments hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 feminine adornments?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 35, 36, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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