Pandora · Parkway Drive

164 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 51-53 and 55, and 11 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
PANDORA · BAR 124
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 56, 82 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 17 sections: 107 keep time, 12 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-79.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART G
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMNCGJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pandora?

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

Is Pandora hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Pandora?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 56, 82 and 6 more.

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