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Pitiful · Blindside

Pitiful · Blindside
EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Groove F
79 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pitiful on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-73, toms through bars 74-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-25 and 34-53 -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|------x-------x-|
Pitiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 82 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D, B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-29 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 69-84 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pitiful?

125 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 Pitiful hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Pitiful?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 82 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED