Pärlor · Kent

124 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-34, and 24 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
PÄRLOR · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 39, 51, 60, 76, 100 and 1 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 6 sections: 113 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART G
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
4 groovesDAGS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pärlor?

131 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 Pärlor hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pärlor?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 23, 39, 51, 60, 76, 100 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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