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

EXERCISE 12 OF 18
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 113-115)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCES8S3D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Parisienne Walkways (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993) on drums

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.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, ride through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-65, silence through bars 66-81, hi-hat through bars 82-114 and ride through bars 115-158, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Parisienne Walkways (Live At Royal Albert Hall, London / 1993) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-114 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED