Ferry Cross The Mersey · Gerry And The Pacemakers

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:24 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 45-49 and 55-60 -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
FERRY CROSS THE MERSEY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-60.

PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCBAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ferry Cross The Mersey?

102 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 Ferry Cross The Mersey 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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