París · La Oreja De Van Gogh

125 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 36-40 and 76-90, and 1 more place -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 137 BPM
PARÍS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 66.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 12 sections: 101 keep time, 2 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-120.

PART C
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesFGHCA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is París?

137 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 París hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in París?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 66.

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