Raisonne · Astonvilla

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-26, 30-35 and 38-43, and 2 more places -- 79.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
RAISONNE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 18 and 19.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 3 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-85.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
BREAK 5
OUTRO
8 groovesFS11S1DS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raisonne?

80 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 Raisonne hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Raisonne?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 11, 18 and 19.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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