Frontal Lobe Hemispherectomy · Diavolo

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12 and 17-20 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FRONTAL LOBE HEMISPHERECTOMY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 49, 51, 53, 57, 59 and 10 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 13 sections: 48 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-20.

CHORUS
PART D
PART S5
PART G
PART H
PART L
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBDAAGH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Frontal Lobe Hemispherectomy?

100 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 Frontal Lobe Hemispherectomy hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Frontal Lobe Hemispherectomy?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 49, 51, 53, 57, 59 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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