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146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PAWANA · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 14 sections: 85 keep time, 29 are fills, 10 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-91.

CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AD
PART AK
13 groovesDSADAKAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pawana?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pawana hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Pawana?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.

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