Fragments Of Time · Daft Punk

150 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 36 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
FRAGMENTS OF TIME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 17.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 7 sections: 133 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-81.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
VERSE
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGKNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fragments Of Time?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fragments Of Time hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fragments Of Time?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 17.

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