Pink + White · Frank Ocean

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 2:08 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 11 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PINK + WHITE · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-113.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pink + White?

160 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pink + White hard to play on drums?

37 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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