Pull The Plug (A Standard) · Death

193 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-104, 106-111 and 114-128 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PULL THE PLUG (A STANDARD) · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 21 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 14 sections: 142 keep time, 27 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-128.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART T
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBLVTI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pull The Plug (A Standard)?

145 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 Pull The Plug (A Standard) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 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 Pull The Plug (A Standard)?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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