Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") · Pharrell Williams

95 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-20, 25-27 and 30-36, and 3 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DOUBLE LIFE (FROM "DESPICABLE ME 4") · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 12 sections: 68 keep time and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-44.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS11DS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4")?

120 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 Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") hard to play on drums?

39 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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