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Pennyweight · After The Burial

EXERCISE 11 OF 69
Groove I
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0 / 69 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesERLBEAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pennyweight on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45, snare through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-69, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 10 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------------------|
Pennyweight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 35, 36, 37, 45, 53 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, AO -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break 3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pennyweight?

142 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 Pennyweight hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Pennyweight?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 35, 36, 37, 45, 53 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED