Prom Queen · Beach Bunny

77 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 25, and 7 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
PROM QUEEN · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-51.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCAS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prom Queen?

140 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 Prom Queen hard to play on drums?

49 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Prom Queen?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 60 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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