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Gangnam Style · Psy

EXERCISE 19 OF 24
Join Part I to Chorus 3 (bars 64-66)
111 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gangnam Style on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-40 and silence through bars 41-42, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gangnam Style -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-65 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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