Giorgio by Moroder · Daft Punk

247 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 8:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulElectronic90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-44, 71-102 and 126, and 2 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
GIORGIO BY MORODER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 and 32 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 167-182 · LANDS ON BAR 183 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 190 · LANDS ON BAR 191 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 214 · LANDS ON BAR 215
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 216-222 · LANDS ON BAR 223 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 20 sections: 166 keep time, 38 are fills, 3 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-102.

PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
PART S15
PART P
17 groovesIFPS15S14+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Giorgio by Moroder?

113 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 Giorgio by Moroder hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Giorgio by Moroder?

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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