Pillule · Damien Saez

210 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 38-47 and 50-54, and 7 more places -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 163 BPM
PILLULE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 48, 55, 56, 80, 111 and 7 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 111-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 126-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 12 sections: 155 keep time, 13 are fills, 9 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 149-195.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCKS2S9R+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pillule?

163 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 Pillule hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pillule?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 48, 55, 56, 80, 111 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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