Physical Education · Not Animals As Leaders

140 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 19 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
PHYSICAL EDUCATION · BAR 119
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 72 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 78 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-70.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBADXJS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Physical Education?

114 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 Education hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Physical Education?

19 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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