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Patriarchal Grip · Gatecreeper

Patriarchal Grip · Gatecreeper
EXERCISE 27 OF 42
Fill at bar 73
77 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Patriarchal Grip on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-63, kick and crashes through bars 64-65, snare through bars 66-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-49 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-69 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-90 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 90-122 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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