Ordinary World · Duran Duran

99 bars, 5:38, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 68-70, and 3 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
ORDINARY WORLD · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 22 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time and 28 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
PART G
PART F
PART G
PART W
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesYWGCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ordinary World?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ordinary World hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 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 Ordinary World?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 9, 19, 20, 21, 24 and 22 more.

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