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EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Run S91 · Part S9 (bars 128-135)
202 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S9
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S9
PART T
PART B
OUTRO
5 groovesCGBTS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pinball Map on drums

232 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, snare through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-48, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 17 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 49, 50, 58, 83, 106, 107 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-57 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-128 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 128-179 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 182-227 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pinball Map?

230 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 Pinball Map hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Pinball Map?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 49, 50, 58, 83, 106, 107 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED