Isaias 9 · Rodolfo Abrantes

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-24 and 26-65, and 2 more places -- 92.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ISAIAS 9 · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 77 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-65.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Isaias 9?

80 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 Isaias 9 hard to play on drums?

35 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Isaias 9?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

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