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Panama (E Standard) · Van Halen

EXERCISE 26 OF 55
Join Part K to Part C (bars 33-35)
103 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART C
PART B
PART E
PART K
PART C
PART K
PART E
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXECKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Panama (E Standard) on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-74, ride through bars 75-82, hi-hat through bars 83-107, snare through bars 108-111 and hi-hat through bars 112-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13 and 19, and 19 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Panama (E Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 18, 34, 38, 39, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, E -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-27 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Panama (E Standard)?

141 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 Panama (E Standard) hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Panama (E Standard)?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 11, 18, 34, 38, 39, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED