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Pitiful · Failure

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove F -- Outro
0 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFHS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pitiful on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-40 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----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

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 44, 48, 52 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pitiful?

135 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?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Pitiful?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 44, 48, 52 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED