Flight Of The Sapphire Dragon · Twilight Force

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 34 and 36, and 9 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
FLIGHT OF THE SAPPHIRE DRAGON · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 69 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 18-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 27-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 14 sections: 25 keep time, 75 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent.

PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AY
OUTRO
12 groovesVIAYAES5+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flight Of The Sapphire Dragon?

85 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 Flight Of The Sapphire Dragon hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Flight Of The Sapphire Dragon?

15 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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