The Party Song · Emery

155 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 15 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
THE PARTY SONG · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 38, 49, 80, 88, 89, 90 and 6 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 88-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 13 sections: 95 keep time, 12 are fills, 13 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-151.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesITPS3B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Party Song?

178 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 Party Song hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Party Song?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 38, 49, 80, 88, 89, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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