Flowery · Versailles

163 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 34-40, and 5 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FLOWERY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 47 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 14 sections: 81 keep time, 53 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-46.

CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJOANAFAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Flowery?

165 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 Flowery hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Flowery?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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