Strasbourg St. Denis improvisation · Roy Hargrove

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-14, 18-22 and 26-30, and 5 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
STRASBOURG ST. DENIS IMPROVISATION · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 3 sections: 62 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-71.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strasbourg St. Denis improvisation?

102 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 Strasbourg St. Denis improvisation hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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