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Panic Switch · Silversun Pickups

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesBFS6IL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Panic Switch on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-116, silence through bars 117-132, hi-hat through bars 133-148, snare through bars 149-156 and hi-hat through bars 157-180.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 22 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 49, 50 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-148 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 153-176 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Panic Switch?

132 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 Panic Switch 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Panic Switch?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 49, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED