Peter Gunn · The Blues Brothers

49 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 1:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:41
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-13 and 15-21, and 1 more place -- 69.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
PETER GUNN · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 49.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 49
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 4 sections: 40 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peter Gunn?

116 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 Peter Gunn hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Peter Gunn?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 49.

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