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pruritus ani · Rotten Flesh

pruritus ani · Rotten Flesh
EXERCISE 25 OF 28
Run I1 · Outro (bars 28-73)
51 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesIAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play pruritus ani on drums

84 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
1:37
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 6-9 and 74-77, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----X-------X---|x---------------|
HH |----------------|----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T1 |XX--------------|----------------|
T2 |--------XX------|----------------|
BD |--xx------xx----|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
pruritus ani -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 15, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is pruritus ani?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is pruritus ani hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 1:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 pruritus ani?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 15, 23, 27, 31, 35 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED