ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play gigapassoid on drums

60 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 1:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 97 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 60
LENGTH: 1:54
DIFFICULTY: 91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27, snare through bars 28-31, hi-hat through bars 32-35 and snare through bars 36-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18 and 20-22 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                       17
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|x-----------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---|----x---x-xxx---x-------|
HH |--o---------------------|--------------------o---|
SD |------------x-----------|--------------x-----x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

gigapassoid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
Bars 17-54 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is gigapassoid?

97 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 gigapassoid hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 gigapassoid?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED