P.A.R.T.Y. · Alestorm

114 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-23 and 25-30, and 8 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
P.A.R.T.Y. · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 37, 40, 50 and 3 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 9 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-114.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART E
PART F
PART M
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAIDMF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is P.A.R.T.Y.?

143 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 P.A.R.T.Y. hard to play on drums?

56 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 P.A.R.T.Y.?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 37, 40, 50 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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