Penny & Me · Hanson

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PENNY & ME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-41.

PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBIMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Penny & Me?

90 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 Penny & Me hard to play on drums?

62 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Penny & Me?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 14, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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