Orpheus · Ash

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-37, 59-65 and 67-73, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ORPHEUS · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 18 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 91 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART A
PART Q
OUTRO
5 groovesDKAQBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orpheus?

150 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 Orpheus hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Orpheus?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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