percy percy · yo

173 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16-18 -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PERCY PERCY · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 19, 161, 162, 167 and 7 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 161-162 · LANDS ON BAR 163 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 5 sections: 26 keep time, 13 are fills, 8 are stops and 145 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-18.

CHORUS
PART N
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS3GS5PNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is percy percy?

130 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 percy percy hard to play on drums?

52 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 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 percy percy?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 19, 161, 162, 167 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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