Gouge Away · Pixies

81 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-19, 22 and 26-44, and 5 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
GOUGE AWAY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 3 sections: 77 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-65.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gouge Away?

125 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 Gouge Away 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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