唐朝 Tang Dynasty 太陽 · 唐朝 Tang Dynasty

149 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-55 and 119-124, and 3 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
唐朝 TANG DYNASTY 太陽 · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 56, 57, 58 and 9 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 16 sections: 110 keep time, 15 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-29.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
11 groovesGCABW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 唐朝 Tang Dynasty 太陽?

112 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 唐朝 Tang Dynasty 太陽 hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 唐朝 Tang Dynasty 太陽?

12 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 40, 44, 52, 56, 57, 58 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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