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Paegan Love Song · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 24 OF 93
Run I1 · Part I (bars 17-21)
78 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
PART I
PART O
PART R
PART Z
PART AW
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAVRZAWO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paegan Love Song on drums

186 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-68, ride through bars 69-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-93, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-38 and 42, and 8 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Paegan Love Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- R, Z -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-33 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-57 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paegan Love Song?

140 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 Paegan Love Song hard to play on drums?

56 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Paegan Love Song?

21 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED