Illusion · Soen

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 23 more places -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ILLUSION · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 37, 52, 53, 69, 85 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 15 are fills, 45 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-60.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCES1S8BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Illusion?

135 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 Illusion hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 Illusion?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 29, 37, 52, 53, 69, 85 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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