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Pull Me Through · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 21 OF 35
Join Part D to Chorus 3 (bars 69-71)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART S8
8 groovesBNS8CV+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pull Me Through on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-52, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x---gg|
BD |x--x-x--x---|
Pull Me Through -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 69-89 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 77-101 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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