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Shopping · Pet Shop Boys

Shopping · Pet Shop Boys
EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove E -- Part E
92 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBES1S5AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shopping on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-108 and silence through bars 109-112.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-----x-x-x-x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
HF |--g-------------|
Shopping -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 55-70 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED