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Pisces · Jinjer

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
12 groovesFS13ICAA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pisces on drums

248 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49, snare through bars 50-51 and toms through bars 52-56, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-39, 102-104 and 106-108, and 2 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25           26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x---|--------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-|x---x-------|
Pisces -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 48, 49, 101, 103, 115 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 82-102 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 140-164 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pisces?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pisces hard to play on drums?

57 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 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 Pisces?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 48, 49, 101, 103, 115 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED