Parisienne Walkways · Gary moore

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 5:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18, and 4 more places -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
PARISIENNE WALKWAYS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 4 sections: 46 keep time, 2 are fills and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART S2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parisienne Walkways?

87 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Parisienne Walkways hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Parisienne Walkways?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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