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Piss Virus · Amen

EXERCISE 11 OF 30
Join Part G to Part C (bars 17-19)
56 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART C
PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLCGOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Piss Virus on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-76 and snare through bars 77-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 55-57, and 2 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-x-------------x-------x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o-------o-----------|
SD |x-x-----x-------x-------x---x---|
BD |x-x-------x-------x-------x---x-|
Piss Virus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 58, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 1 more.

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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-27 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Piss Virus?

95 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 Piss Virus hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Piss Virus?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 58, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED