PDA · Interpol

169 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 17, and 12 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
PDA · BAR 153
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 8 sections: 130 keep time, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-168.

PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIFCAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is PDA?

142 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 PDA hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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