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Pastello Bianco · Pinguini Tattici Nuclari

Pastello Bianco · Pinguini Tattici Nuclari
EXERCISE 17 OF 18
Run H1 · Outro 2 (bars 54-60)
52 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pastello Bianco on drums

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.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-40, silence through bars 41-44, toms through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-60.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-57 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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