Don't Stand So Close To Me · The Police

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-45, 62-70 and 87-97, and 1 more place -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 11 sections: 120 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-137.

PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFCDB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Stand So Close To Me?

140 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 Don't Stand So Close To Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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