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Pinned Down and Fisted · Infant Annihilator

EXERCISE 11 OF 55
Fill at bar 23 and 26 (a small one)
23 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART D
PART L
PART Q
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesS10S12DLAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pinned Down and Fisted on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-28, toms through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-35 and ride through bars 36-37, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 2 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x-------x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-|
Pinned Down and Fisted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part V and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pinned Down and Fisted?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Pinned Down and Fisted hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Pinned Down and Fisted?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 23, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED