Pa Pa Ya · Babymetal

152 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 20 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
PA PA YA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 48, 50, 56, 57, 58 and 18 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 56-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 88 keep time, 24 are fills, 26 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 121-131.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEGQSF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pa Pa Ya?

158 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 Ya 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pa Pa Ya?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 32, 48, 50, 56, 57, 58 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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