The Boxer · Simon & Garfunkel

237 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-80, 83-100 and 109-153, and 1 more place -- 50.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
THE BOXER · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 8 sections: 207 keep time and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-218.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCS1AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boxer?

185 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Boxer hard to play on drums?

34 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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