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Debaser · Pixies

EXERCISE 20 OF 23
5-bar fill at bar 59
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0 / 23 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART S5
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Debaser on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-43, silence through bars 44-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 23, and 6 more places -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Debaser?

136 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 Debaser hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Debaser?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED