Willie The Pimp · Frank Zappa

164 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 7:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
7:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 15 and 24, and 5 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
WILLIE THE PIMP · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 30, 31 and 51 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 29-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 57 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-143.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART AR
PART BM
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCAMARDBM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Willie The Pimp?

84 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 Willie The Pimp hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 7:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Willie The Pimp?

15 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 5, 13, 21, 29, 30, 31 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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