Pistol · keo

50 bars, 2:40, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 19-20 and 23-24, and 4 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
PISTOL · BAR 20
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 34, 42 and 1 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 4 sections: 39 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pistol?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pistol hard to play on drums?

61 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pistol?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 16, 34, 42 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 50 BARS ANALYSED
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