Pagan Part 2 · Vitalism

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-79, 81-83 and 85, and 1 more place -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PAGAN PART 2 · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 20 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 13 sections: 62 keep time, 26 are fills, 12 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-34.

PART K
CHORUS
PART V
PART AR
PART BG
OUTRO
BREAK 3
12 groovesPVBGARK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pagan Part 2?

135 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Pagan Part 2 hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

123 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Pagan Part 2?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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