Shopping · Pet Shop Boys

112 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-28 and 30-49, and 4 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SHOPPING · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-58.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBES1S5AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shopping?

125 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 Shopping hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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