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Pioneer To The Falls · Interpol

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART E
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIBAEH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pioneer To The Falls on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, toms through bars 41-53, ride through bars 54-76, hi-hat through bars 77-83 and silence through bars 84-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-75 and 95-124 -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
T2 |x-----x-x-------|
FT |x-----x-x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Pioneer To The Falls -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 16, 52 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-53 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-80 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-95 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pioneer To The Falls?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pioneer To The Falls hard to play on drums?

59 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pioneer To The Falls?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 10, 16, 52 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED