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Pillule · Damien Saez

Pillule · Damien Saez
EXERCISE 16 OF 26
Groove L
162 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pillule on drums

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

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-20, hi-hat through bars 21-73, silence through bars 74-76, hi-hat through bars 77-94 and silence through bars 95-96, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Pillule -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 71-113 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 117-200 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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