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Pathetic · Veilborn

EXERCISE 19 OF 101
Fill at bar 14
112 / 272 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART AG
PART AR
PART C
PART AM
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK 3
15 groovesICTQS22+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 10
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pathetic on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-16, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 15-16, and 26 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 14, 17 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 21-44 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pathetic?

140 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 Pathetic hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Pathetic?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 9, 14, 17 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED