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Pepper · Butthole Surfers

EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove C -- Part C
66 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pepper on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, silence through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-24 and 27-30, and 4 more places -- 72.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xgxgxgxgxgooxgxg|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |x--x---xxxxx-x--|
Pepper -- 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 12 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-52 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pepper?

80 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 Pepper hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED