Gangnam Style · Psy

123 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 43-49 and 51-57, and 4 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
GANGNAM STYLE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
9 groovesEFBIS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gangnam Style?

132 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 Gangnam Style hard to play on drums?

48 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gangnam Style?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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