Shanghai · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

78 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 3:57 of playing on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-17, 20-29 and 32, and 3 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SHANGHAI · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 3 sections: 33 keep time and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-38.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesS3DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shanghai?

160 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Shanghai hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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