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Pharmacy Film · Static Dress

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDWAEOK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pharmacy Film on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 2-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, snare through bars 24-26, toms through bars 27-29, snare through bars 30-31 and toms through bars 32-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9 and 58-60 -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pharmacy Film -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 15, 19, 27, 28, 29 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, S (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-20 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-46 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pharmacy Film?

112 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 Pharmacy Film hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pharmacy Film?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 15, 19, 27, 28, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED