Πάρα Πολύ · Pantelis Pantelidis

16 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 0:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 192 BPM
ΠΆΡΑ ΠΟΛΎ · BAR 11
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars across 3 sections: 13 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Πάρα Πολύ?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Πάρα Πολύ hard to play on drums?

42 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Πάρα Πολύ?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 9.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 16 BARS ANALYSED
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