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Physical Education · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 19 OF 58
Fill at bar 25
68 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBADXJS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Physical Education on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-27, ride through bars 28-29, snare through bars 30-35 and ride through bars 36-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 19 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    119
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---g---g---g---|
SD |--gg-g--X-gg---g|
BD |x-----xx-----x--|
Physical Education -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 72 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 38-56 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-67 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Physical Education?

114 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 Physical Education hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Physical Education?

19 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 17, 18 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED