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Pathetica · Panda (Pxndx)

EXERCISE 24 OF 48
Groove M
105 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART B
PART C
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART L
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJCBLE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pathetica on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, toms through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-60, toms through bars 61-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-104, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 53-59 and 89-95, and 1 more place -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Pathetica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 52, 60, 72, 86, 87 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-33 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-89 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-48 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 72-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-120 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pathetica?

152 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Pathetica hard to play on drums?

62 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Pathetica?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 52, 60, 72, 86, 87 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED