Para Luna · Girlstoopid

144 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92-94 and 96-98, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PARA LUNA · BAR 88
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 4, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 55 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 18-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time, 61 are fills, 2 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART S4
PART AX
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesQAXS7GD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Para Luna?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Para Luna hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

144 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Para Luna?

14 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 4, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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