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Pamela · Toto

EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Fill at bar 41 and 65 (a small one)
65 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDJBQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pamela on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-78, ride through bars 79-82, hi-hat through bars 83-94, ride through bars 95-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 22 and 24, and 13 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-91 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pamela?

98 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 Pamela hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Pamela?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED