Pastello Bianco · Pinguini Tattici Nuclari

60 bars, 3:26, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 29-31 and 33-36, and 3 more places -- 56.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
PASTELLO BIANCO · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 48 and 56.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 7 sections: 27 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-40.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS2HS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pastello Bianco?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pastello Bianco hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Pastello Bianco?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 48 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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