Gaspésie · Irvin Blais

122 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-37 and 39-62, and 4 more places -- 89.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GASPÉSIE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 86, 121 and 122.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 121-122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 3 sections: 115 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-37.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gaspésie?

130 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 Gaspésie hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Gaspésie?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 86, 121 and 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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