petal · Ariana grande

100 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 47-52 and 54-59, and 5 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 92.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 13 sections: 72 keep time, 2 are fills, 6 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-83.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesEDAS1S3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is petal?

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 petal hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in petal?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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