Le Brio · Big Soul

70 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 20-26 and 36-42, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LE BRIO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 35, 59 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-69.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
3 groovesDFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Le Brio?

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 Le Brio hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Le Brio?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 19, 35, 59 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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