Petal Dance · Toby Fox

56 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat and snare.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:33
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PETAL DANCE · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 3 sections: 54 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Petal Dance?

145 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 Petal Dance hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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