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Pa Pa Ya · Babymetal

EXERCISE 5 OF 54
Groove G -- Part G
70 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART F
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pa Pa Ya on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-32 and ride through bars 33-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |---x--x----x--x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Pa Pa Ya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 6-19 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-61 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-121 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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