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128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 29-30, and 20 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SEROJA · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 83, 99 and 115.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills, 26 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-68.

INTRO
PART S3
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SEROJA?

125 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 SEROJA hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 SEROJA?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 83, 99 and 115.

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