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Parisienne Walkways · Gary moore

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S2
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parisienne Walkways on drums

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

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
24/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
Parisienne Walkways -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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