Gracefully · Vintage Trouble

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 10 more places -- 63.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
GRACEFULLY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 27 and 35.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-26.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBECGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gracefully?

108 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 Gracefully hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Gracefully?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 27 and 35.

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