The Persuaders / Amicalement Vôtre · John Barry

69 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 103 BPM, 2:01 of playing on ride, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-40 and 45-68 -- 98.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
THE PERSUADERS / AMICALEMENT VÔTRE · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Persuaders / Amicalement Vôtre?

103 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Persuaders / Amicalement Vôtre hard to play on drums?

31 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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