The Ballad of St. Augustine · Disciple

157 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-51 and 67-73, and 5 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
THE BALLAD OF ST. AUGUSTINE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 1-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 12 sections: 94 keep time, 32 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-115.

PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPKHS7W+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad of St. Augustine?

148 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 The Ballad of St. Augustine 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 The Ballad of St. Augustine?

9 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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