Arthur (Theme From) · Arthur Shea

56 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 17-19 and 28-29, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ARTHUR (THEME FROM) · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 56
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 8 sections: 47 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-38.

PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesGIBDS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arthur (Theme From)?

80 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 Arthur (Theme From) hard to play on drums?

34 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Arthur (Theme From)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

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