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PLEDGE · Spite

EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove T (a two-bar phrase)
27 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART H
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART AG
OUTRO 2
7 groovesSHAGKA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PLEDGE on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-22 and toms through bars 23-26, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 57, and 10 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
PLEDGE -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 18 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- S, H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-27 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PLEDGE?

140 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 PLEDGE hard to play on drums?

64 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 PLEDGE?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 8, 14, 18 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED