Parisienne Walkways (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993) · Gary Moore

179 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 88 BPM, 6:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 8-16 and 19-32, and 4 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
PARISIENNE WALKWAYS (LIVE AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON / 1993) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 8 sections: 137 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-64.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCES8S3D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parisienne Walkways (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993)?

88 BPM, in 3/4, 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 (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993) hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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