Physical · Dua Lipa

105 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-41, 43-58 and 61-77, and 4 more places -- 85.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 147 BPM
PHYSICAL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 6 sections: 94 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-105.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesFS1BS3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Physical?

147 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 Physical hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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