Prelude (Electric Guitar Version) · Johann Sebastian Bach

39 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-6 and 8-9, and 6 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PRELUDE (ELECTRIC GUITAR VERSION) · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 3 sections: 35 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-27.

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

Questions

What BPM is Prelude (Electric Guitar Version)?

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 Prelude (Electric Guitar Version) hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 39 BARS ANALYSED
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