Graceland (Complete) · Paul Simon

143 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-143 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
GRACELAND (COMPLETE) · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars: 143 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-143.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Graceland (Complete)?

118 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 Graceland (Complete) hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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