Labour · Paris Paloma

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 20-21 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
LABOUR · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 3 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 75-81 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-18.

CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART I
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesASIFD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Labour?

85 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 Labour hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Labour?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 19, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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