Kodachrome · Paul Simon

110 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 22-23 and 30-31, and 5 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
KODACHROME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 32, 33, 37, 57, 58 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCUAER+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kodachrome?

135 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 Kodachrome hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kodachrome?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 27, 32, 33, 37, 57, 58 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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