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Pariah · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 29 OF 73
Run O1 · Chorus (bars 27-39)
113 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOYTEC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pariah on drums

171 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, toms through bars 11-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-50, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 79-85 and 91-93, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Pariah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- O, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Break -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-60 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-49 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pariah?

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

Is Pariah hard to play on drums?

57 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?

171 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Pariah?

18 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED