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pet spider · BlowBall

EXERCISE 7 OF 75
Groove L -- Part L
35 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L, CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play pet spider on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20, ride through bars 21-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26                                               27
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------x-----------|
RD |------------------x-----------x--x--x-----x-----|------x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
HH |------o-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------x-----------------|x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x-----------x--x--x-----------x--x--x-----|------x--x--x-----------x--x--x-----------x--x--|
pet spider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CE -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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