Hey Pachuco · Royal Crown Revue

70 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HEY PACHUCO · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16 and 61.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 6 sections: 56 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-60.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJAFIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Pachuco?

125 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 Hey Pachuco hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Hey Pachuco?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 16 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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