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Pagan Part 2 · Vitalism

Pagan Part 2 · Vitalism
EXERCISE 3 OF 59
Groove AR -- Part AR (a two-bar phrase)
13 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AT, PART AR
PART K
CHORUS
PART V
PART AT
PART AR
PART BG
OUTRO
BREAK 3
12 groovesPVBGARK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pagan Part 2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-17 and snare through bars 18-21, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    78
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Pagan Part 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- BG, P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-24 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part AL -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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