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Pareidolia · Kevin Sherwood

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove Y -- Outro 2
0 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART D
PART J
PART D
PART J
PART O
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO 2
12 groovesYDJBO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pareidolia on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60, silence through bars 61-64, toms through bars 65-80, snare through bars 81-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-125 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x-xx-x-x-x-xxxxx|
Pareidolia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 27, 28, 40, 43 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-47 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pareidolia?

100 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 Pareidolia hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pareidolia?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 14, 18, 27, 28, 40, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED