Northern Downpour · Panic! At The Disco

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 26-28 and 31-37, and 5 more places -- 75.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
NORTHERN DOWNPOUR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 46 and 50.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 2 sections: 53 keep time, 4 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-28.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Northern Downpour?

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 Northern Downpour hard to play on drums?

44 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Northern Downpour?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 30, 46 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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