Postparto · hesse kessel

300 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 10:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
300
LENGTH
10:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
POSTPARTO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 118, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133 and 29 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 122-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 142 · LANDS ON BAR 143

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

300 bars across 30 sections: 167 keep time, 35 are fills, 26 are stops and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-55.

CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART BO
OUTRO 2
25 groovesFCAS4BOO+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Postparto?

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 Postparto hard to play on drums?

59 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

300 bars, about 10:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Postparto?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 118, 122, 123, 131, 132, 133 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 300 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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