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From The Pinnacle To The Pit · Ghost

EXERCISE 26 OF 42
Join Part L to Part M (bars 39-41)
74 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART M
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMSLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From The Pinnacle To The Pit on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-29, snare through bars 30-34, ride through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-x-x-g-x-x-|
HH |--o-------o-----|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |g-x--x-x--x--x-x|
HF |----x-------x---|
From The Pinnacle To The Pit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, N (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-56 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is From The Pinnacle To The Pit?

90 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 From The Pinnacle To The Pit hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 From The Pinnacle To The Pit?

8 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED