Red Baron · Billy Cobham

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 39 and 41, and 8 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
RED BARON · BAR 112
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 70, 74, 82 and 4 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 11 sections: 114 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-134.

CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
PART W
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesACMDS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Baron?

88 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 Red Baron hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

140 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Red Baron?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 70, 74, 82 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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