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Piece Of Pie · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDLFQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piece Of Pie on drums

191 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-92, ride through bars 93-106, toms through bars 107-108, hi-hat through bars 109-160, ride through bars 161-166 and snare through bars 167-168, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 37-52 and 57-64, and 4 more places -- 44.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|
Piece Of Pie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 53, 54, 55 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-20 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-78 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-168 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Piece Of Pie?

150 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 Piece Of Pie hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Piece Of Pie?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 53, 54, 55 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED