flutter · julie

162 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-7 and 10-12, and 11 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 171 BPM
FLUTTER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 171 BPM
BARS 90-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 9 sections: 120 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-35.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCUGYP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is flutter?

171 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 flutter hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in flutter?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 39, 40, 48, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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