Sarenade · DECIBEL

204 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 36, and 18 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SARENADE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20 and 29 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 21 sections: 128 keep time, 35 are fills, 24 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-59.

CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 5
PART E
PART R
PART U
PART Y
PART E
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGERIU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sarenade?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sarenade hard to play on drums?

60 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sarenade?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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