La ballade Nord Irlandaise · Renaud

50 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-49 -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LA BALLADE NORD IRLANDAISE · BAR 35
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 7 sections: 40 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-49.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBACD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is La ballade Nord Irlandaise?

120 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 La ballade Nord Irlandaise hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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