Patriarchal Grip · Gatecreeper

130 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-47 and 56-63, and 4 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
PATRIARCHAL GRIP · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 36, 40, 48 and 6 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 12 are fills, 20 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S10
PART P
OUTRO
10 groovesDPS1S3K+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Patriarchal Grip?

130 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 Patriarchal Grip hard to play on drums?

51 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Patriarchal Grip?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 32, 34, 36, 40, 48 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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