Past Time With Good Company · Ritchie Blackmore

87 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-25, 27-41 and 43-51, and 3 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
PAST TIME WITH GOOD COMPANY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Past Time With Good Company?

118 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 Past Time With Good Company hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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