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Pig · This Town Needs Guns

Pig · This Town Needs Guns
EXERCISE 7 OF 33
Groove F
71 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART P
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesBEPUS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pig on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-81, toms through bars 82-97, hi-hat through bars 98-109 and ride through bars 110-122, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 14-15 and 27-28, and 9 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5.....
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----x-----x-----o-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----------x-----------|
HF |------------------------------------g-----------------|
Pig -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 59, 64, 83, 84, 85, 95 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pig?

151 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 Pig hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 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 Pig?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 59, 64, 83, 84, 85, 95 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED