Pull Me Through · Royal Blood

110 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21 and 23-24, and 8 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PULL ME THROUGH · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 28, 53, 54, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 72-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 27 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART S8
8 groovesBNS8CV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pull Me Through?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Pull Me Through hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pull Me Through?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 28, 53, 54, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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