Zaferlerim · Demir Demirkan

121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 13 and 17, and 6 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
ZAFERLERIM · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 13 sections: 86 keep time, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART F
PART N
PART F
PART C
PART Q
PART Q
8 groovesBQFCN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Zaferlerim?

126 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 Zaferlerim 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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