pet spider · BlowBall

126 bars, 6:32, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30 and 38, and 3 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
PET SPIDER · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 36, 37, 39 and 26 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 15 sections: 79 keep time, 33 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART J
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART BM
PART AD
PART CE
PART CH
9 groovesWADLBMCE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is pet spider?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is pet spider hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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.

How many fills are in pet spider?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 17, 25, 29, 36, 37, 39 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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