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Pizza Day · The Aquabats!

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 54 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
PART Z
OUTRO
9 groovesFMSZB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pizza Day on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-117 and ride through bars 118-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 10 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Pizza Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 12, 17, 21, 49, 53 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, Z -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-53 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pizza Day?

149 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 Pizza Day hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pizza Day?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 12, 17, 21, 49, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED