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Pandora · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 15 OF 69
Join Part E to Part G (bars 23-25)
108 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
PART E
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART G
PART J
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMNCGJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 12
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pandora on drums

164 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and snare through bars 40-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49, 51-53 and 55, and 11 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    124
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-------------------|
Pandora -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 56, 82 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-17 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-25 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 32-100 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-44 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pandora?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pandora hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Pandora?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 40, 56, 82 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED