Pa Pa Pa · Los Prisioneros

132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-35, 37-44 and 49-63, and 3 more places -- 85.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PA PA PA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 64, 92 and 108.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 5 sections: 124 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pa Pa Pa?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pa Pa Pa hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pa Pa Pa?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 64, 92 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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