Ordinary world ver 2 · Duran Duran

82 bars, 4:39, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9 and 14-15, and 8 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
ORDINARY WORLD VER 2 · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 43, 51 and 4 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-20.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCES8P+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ordinary world ver 2?

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 ver 2 hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 ver 2?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 43, 51 and 4 more.

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