Pale Shelter · Tears For Fears

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 20-38 and 43-61, and 3 more places -- 79.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PALE SHELTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 116 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-129.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pale Shelter?

120 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 Pale Shelter hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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