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Pillars Of Sand · Vektor

EXERCISE 11 OF 106
Fill at bar 18 (a small one)
76 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AE
PART BS
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSZAES18BS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pillars Of Sand on drums

229 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
8:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44, snare through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-61, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-38, 41-43 and 50, and 8 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pillars Of Sand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 89 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, Z -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-49 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 11-28 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-38 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pillars Of Sand?

120 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 Pillars Of Sand hard to play on drums?

62 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 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 8:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Pillars Of Sand?

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED