Prince of P · Galliano

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 26 and 29-32, and 17 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
PRINCE OF P · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 99, 100 and 139.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 99-100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 116 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-138.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDBQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prince of P?

96 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 Prince of P hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Prince of P?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 73, 99, 100 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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