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Pasilyo · SunKissed Lola

Pasilyo · SunKissed Lola
EXERCISE 18 OF 53
Groove M
133 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART I
PART B
PART I
PART AC
10 groovesCIACPB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pasilyo on drums

179 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-64, snare through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-144 and snare through bars 145-147, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11 and 13-16, and 11 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 17, 18, 42, 65, 66 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- C, AB -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-115 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pasilyo?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Pasilyo hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Pasilyo?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 17, 18, 42, 65, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED