Cygnus Pissmund · Holly

263 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 9-10 and 14-15, and 5 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
CYGNUS PISSMUND · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 122, 167, 168 and 169.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 167-169 · LANDS ON BAR 170 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

263 bars across 22 sections: 217 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-62.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART R
PART Q
BREAK 3
OUTRO
12 groovesBAQIS21+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cygnus Pissmund?

150 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 Cygnus Pissmund hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

263 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cygnus Pissmund?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 122, 167, 168 and 169.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED
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