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Feed The Pigs · Dethrashed

EXERCISE 38 OF 45
Join Part Q to Part S11 (bars 152-154)
129 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART S11
PART S1
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART S8
PART I
PART Q
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCIQSL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feed The Pigs on drums

193 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, snare through bars 65-81 and silence through bars 82-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-63, 116 and 121-127 -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Feed The Pigs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 43, 44, 47 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S1 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-81 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-115 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-153 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 152-180 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feed The Pigs?

180 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 Feed The Pigs hard to play on drums?

46 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 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Feed The Pigs?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 43, 44, 47 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED