The Greatest Show · Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

192 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98, 100 and 102, and 24 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
THE GREATEST SHOW · BAR 100
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 97, 105, 113 and 175.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 175 · LANDS ON BAR 176
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 21 sections: 157 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-32.

PART B
PART C
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO 2
18 groovesJBRDC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Greatest Show?

154 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 The Greatest Show hard to play on drums?

40 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Greatest Show?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 97, 105, 113 and 175.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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