Spandau Ballet · True

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 27-30 and 42, and 11 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SPANDAU BALLET · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 61, 89, 93, 96, 117 and 1 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-88.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBS3HM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spandau Ballet?

98 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 Spandau Ballet hard to play on drums?

39 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Spandau Ballet?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 61, 89, 93, 96, 117 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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