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Cygnus Pissmund · Holly

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
PART R
PART Q
BREAK 3
OUTRO
12 groovesBAQIS21+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cygnus Pissmund on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-19, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x--x----|
SD |-ggg-gg-xggx|
BD |x---x--x----|
Cygnus Pissmund -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- A, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-124 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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