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Pink · Boris

EXERCISE 16 OF 47
Groove I
118 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesCJWHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pink on drums

164 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-24, toms through bars 25-27, silence through bars 28-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 44 and 46, and 16 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-x--x--x-x--x--|
Pink -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 21, 45, 47, 48, 49 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-46 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pink?

155 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 Pink hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pink?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 21, 45, 47, 48, 49 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED