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Pernicious · Signs Of The Swarm

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART S2
PART C
CHORUS
PART O
PART C
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesJOCXS17+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pernicious on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-38, hi-hat through bars 39-47, snare through bars 48-62, toms through bars 63-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-79, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33 and 80-87 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Pernicious -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-35 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pernicious?

140 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 Pernicious hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

180 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Pernicious?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 42, 43, 49 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED