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On A Pedestal · Adhesive

On A Pedestal · Adhesive
EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Groove E -- Part E
34 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On A Pedestal on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 2-45, ride through bars 46-51, snare through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx--|
On A Pedestal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 14-37 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-65 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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