Parcels · Lightenup

131 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-39, 41-71 and 73-77, and 1 more place -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
PARCELS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 4 sections: 124 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-77.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parcels?

123 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 Parcels hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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