In April · Anxious

151 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 12 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IN APRIL · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 34, 35, 41 and 11 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 13 sections: 97 keep time, 20 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-142.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART U
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBGAFUM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In April?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In April hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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 In April?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 34, 35, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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