Papa Knows How To Drive · Bernard Gervais Burnz

45 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-44 -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PAPA KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE · BAR 15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 45
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 33 keep time, 1 is a fill and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-44.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Papa Knows How To Drive?

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 Papa Knows How To Drive hard to play on drums?

46 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Papa Knows How To Drive?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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