Sephia · Sheila On 7

50 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17, 20-25 and 28-32 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SEPHIA · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 46.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 3 sections: 39 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-17.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sephia?

96 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 Sephia hard to play on drums?

49 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sephia?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 38, 42 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 50 BARS ANALYSED
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