← SONGS

Pillbug (Correct drums) · Train Breaks Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove L -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesLEBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pillbug (Correct drums) on drums

99 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 3-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, ride through bars 51-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-29, 31-32 and 35-41, and 3 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27               28
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|----x-x---x---x-|
Pillbug (Correct drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 33, 34, 42 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-59 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Pillbug (Correct drums)?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Pillbug (Correct drums) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Pillbug (Correct drums)?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 18, 26, 30, 33, 34, 42 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED