On A Pedestal · Adhesive

69 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 3 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ON A PEDESTAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 4 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On A Pedestal?

150 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 On A Pedestal hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in On A Pedestal?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 29, 37 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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