Very nice song 5 · Breath of Light

284 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 8:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
284
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-31, and 17 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
VERY NICE SONG 5 · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 58, 66, 74 and 22 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

284 bars across 16 sections: 194 keep time, 28 are fills, 38 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-55.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART J
9 groovesEJABXK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Very nice song 5?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Very nice song 5 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

284 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Very nice song 5?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 58, 66, 74 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 284 BARS ANALYSED
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