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Pale Tortured Blue · Draconian

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pale Tortured Blue on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Pale Tortured Blue -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 40, 48, 64, 68 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 11 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pale Tortured Blue?

90 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 Pale Tortured Blue hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Pale Tortured Blue?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 40, 48, 64, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED