Georgy Porgy · Toto

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 12 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
GEORGY PORGY · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 21 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 52-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 60-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 79 keep time and 27 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-119.

PART D
PART I
PART D
PART L
PART R
PART D
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAALDIR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Georgy Porgy?

98 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 Georgy Porgy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Georgy Porgy?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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