Pas de Doute · les sheriffs

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24, 31-48 and 55-70, and 1 more place -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PAS DE DOUTE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 74.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 85 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-48.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDHBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pas de Doute?

140 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 Pas de Doute 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 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 Pas de Doute?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 6 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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