IF · Eternal Spirit

16 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 0:35 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
IF · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 12.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 3 sections: 12 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

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

Questions

What BPM is IF?

110 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 IF hard to play on drums?

57 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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 IF?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 11 and 12.

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