papirni zmajevi · ṣpirala/spiralȧ

163 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 58 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 15-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 20 sections: 67 keep time, 64 are fills, 16 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 158-165.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART AJ
PART AJ
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAYAJKP+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is papirni zmajevi?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is papirni zmajevi hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 papirni zmajevi?

26 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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