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Drop The Guillotine · Peach Pit

EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove J -- Part J
39 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART J
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART J
PART J
PART J
PART M
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNIMJAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drop The Guillotine on drums

149 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80 and ride through bars 81-120, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13 and 33, and 17 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-76 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drop The Guillotine?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drop The Guillotine hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Drop The Guillotine?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 44 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED