Parklife · Blur

105 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-27, 29-36 and 39-41, and 5 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 139 BPM
PARKLIFE · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 2 sections: 82 keep time, 21 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-32.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Parklife?

139 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 Parklife hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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