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Pärlor · Kent

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove D -- Verse
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0 / 19 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2, VERSE 3
CHORUS
VERSE
PART G
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
4 groovesDAGS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pärlor on drums

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

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
79/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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