The Chauffeur · Duran Duran

171 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 11 and 13, and 24 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
THE CHAUFFEUR · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 22, 65, 81, 116 and 2 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 9 sections: 145 keep time, 8 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-112.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMCJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Chauffeur?

82 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Chauffeur hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Chauffeur?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 10, 22, 65, 81, 116 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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