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Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up) · PISS ANT

EXERCISE 13 OF 34
Join Break 2 to Chorus 2 (bars 19-21)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEYURS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up) on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-16, silence through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 21, and 3 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 8, 19, 20, 22, 41 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, H -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up)?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Cowardice (feat. Pierced Up)?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 8, 19, 20, 22, 41 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED