Frevo Mulher · Zé Ramalho

257 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-60, 62-64 and 66-80, and 20 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
FREVO MULHER · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 93, 239, 248 and 257.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 239 · LANDS ON BAR 240
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 248 · LANDS ON BAR 249
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 257

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 16 sections: 230 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-82.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART N
8 groovesEFNRD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frevo Mulher?

162 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 Frevo Mulher hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Frevo Mulher?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 92, 93, 239, 248 and 257.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED
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