Pirates Of The Caribbean · Theme Songs

48 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 1:18 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:18
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-9, 12 and 14-17, and 1 more place -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN · BARS 6-7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 18, 21, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 5 sections: 23 keep time and 20 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-4.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCPAFMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pirates Of The Caribbean?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pirates Of The Caribbean hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pirates Of The Caribbean?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 5, 10, 13, 18, 21, 22 and 14 more.

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