Orf · Bumblefoot

164 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ORF · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 8 sections: 112 keep time, 29 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-123.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesMAIKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orf?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Orf 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Orf?

5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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