O Trem Azul · Lô Borges

65 bars, 3:58, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 24, and 7 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 64 BPM
O TREM AZUL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 25, 26, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 64 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 8 sections: 38 keep time, 15 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART D
PART J
PART I
PART H
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHDIJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is O Trem Azul?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is O Trem Azul hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 O Trem Azul?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 25, 26, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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