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PDA · Interpol

EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Groove I -- Chorus
46 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIFCAS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PDA on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-28, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 17, and 12 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    153
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
PDA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, A -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-75 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is PDA?

142 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 PDA hard to play on drums?

64 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED