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Cactus · Pixies

EXERCISE 6 OF 7
Run C1 · Outro (bars 11-67)
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0 / 7 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cactus on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
26/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-29, toms through bars 30-32 and snare through bars 33-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-21, 23-32 and 34-50, and 2 more places -- 86% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Cactus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Cactus?

116 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 Cactus hard to play on drums?

26 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cactus?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED