Pleasure Dome · Van Halen

221 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 10:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
10:10
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-49, 51-53 and 55-56, and 12 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
PLEASURE DOME · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 50, 94, 166, 174, 180, 181 and 35 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 166 · LANDS ON BAR 167
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 174 · LANDS ON BAR 175
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 180-182 · LANDS ON BAR 183 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 22 sections: 141 keep time, 41 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-129.

CHORUS
PART BX
PART CP
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAHHBXCPAU+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pleasure Dome?

87 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 Pleasure Dome hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 10:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pleasure Dome?

5 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 50, 94, 166, 174, 180, 181 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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