Sadeness · Enigma

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SADENESS · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 6 sections: 75 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-45.

CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sadeness?

85 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 Sadeness hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sadeness?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.

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