Innocence · Harlequin

135 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12, 14-28 and 31-37, and 10 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
INNOCENCE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 29, 38, 42, 74 and 5 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 6 sections: 115 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-28.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
5 groovesBNKIPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Innocence?

127 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 Innocence hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Innocence?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 2, 29, 38, 42, 74 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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