Spleen (AI) · Peste Noire

183 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:48 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
183
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 49-55 and 61-63, and 1 more place -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SPLEEN (AI) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 13 sections: 106 keep time, 41 are fills, 13 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART T
PART S10
OUTRO
10 groovesAACTCS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spleen (AI)?

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 Spleen (AI) hard to play on drums?

63 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?

183 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Spleen (AI)?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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