Police Scanner · Chanel Beads

69 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 31-35 and 51-55, and 1 more place -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
POLICE SCANNER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-25.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCDBS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Police Scanner?

122 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 Police Scanner hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 3 sittings, about 32 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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