Idea de cancion, demo, Devasted by your metaphor · emilio

51 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27 and 31-37 -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
IDEA DE CANCION, DEMO, DEVASTED BY YOUR METAPHOR · BAR 22
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 3-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 10-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 3 sections: 23 keep time, 13 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

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

Questions

What BPM is Idea de cancion, demo, Devasted by your metaphor?

125 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 Idea de cancion, demo, Devasted by your metaphor hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Idea de cancion, demo, Devasted by your metaphor?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
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